<?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 child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/655]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1879]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parsons are soules waggoners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parsons are soules waggoners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time in Vietnam told me many stories—but none more chilling than the one from two helicopter pilots. They told me how they would shoot the friendlies on their way back from reconnaissance missions just so they could empty their ammunition before returning to base. The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand. But to the American pilots, they were simply dots on the ground.Whitehead is a political conservative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Oxen and the Axle-TreesA heavy wagon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Oxen and the Axle-TreesA heavy wagon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen. The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels: Hullo there! why do you make so much noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out. Those who suffer most cry out the least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The governor certainly takes pride in Pittsburgh's accomplishments and would be more than willing to participate in a friendly wager. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The governor certainly takes pride in Pittsburgh's accomplishments and would be more than willing to participate in a friendly wager.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting men are the city's fortress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting men are the city's fortress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest qualities of character… must be earned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest qualities of character… must be earned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merry lark he soars on high, No worldly thought o'ertakes him.  He sings aloud to the clear blue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24091]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merry lark he soars on high, No worldly thought o'ertakes him.  He sings aloud to the clear blue sky,   And the daylight that awakes him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like I said earlier, the movie is metaphorical for the world. Today we're seeing so many instances of monumental duplicity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like I said earlier, the movie is metaphorical for the world. Today we're seeing so many instances of monumental duplicity, ... I think that's the task, in a way, to show what an architect of duplicity this character is, in his simplicity, forthrightness and morality. It's a strange and wonderful study of how far a horrible lie can be taken in terms of a character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since earlier this year, the administration has shifted from an ideological approach toward North Korea, which produced nothing but counterproductive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since earlier this year, the administration has shifted from an ideological approach toward North Korea, which produced nothing but counterproductive results, to a realistic, pragmatic approach with interesting results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never write a letter while you are angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never write a letter while you are angry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty begets license. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty begets license.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52391]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask what their priority in life was, it was their children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33830]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask what their priority in life was, it was their children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to sit down with this guy and ask him why he did it. It might have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35578]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to sit down with this guy and ask him why he did it. It might have to do with him being a veterinarian and not a physician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24355]]></link><description><![CDATA[All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9506]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Ita!0 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46524]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. - The Oracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. - The Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives;  Over and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives;  Over and over   To the lowly clover    He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too).     He will be lisping and pledging to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the NBA scheduling, a lot of times it puts the onus on teams traveling. You play Utah one night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32633]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the NBA scheduling, a lot of times it puts the onus on teams traveling. You play Utah one night and a team like Phoenix is resting and waiting for you the next night. That's tough. So you run into some circumstances like that more, it seems, on the road than you do at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let loneliness drive you back into the arms of someone you know you don't belong with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let loneliness drive you back into the arms of someone you know you don't belong with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think not the good, The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done,  Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think not the good, The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done,  Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the prisoner,   The fatherless, the friendless, and the widow,    Who daily owe the bounty of thy hand,     Shall cry to Heaven, and pull a blessing on thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  I endeavor to keep all Shibboleths, and forms and terms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  I endeavor to keep all Shibboleths, and forms and terms of distinction out of sight, as we keep knives and razors out of the way of children; and if my hearers had not some other means of information, I think they would not know from me that there are such creatures as Arminians and Calvinists in the world. But we [would] talk a good deal about Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, guilt and other shortcomings of the self. Self-contempt is here transmuted into hatred of others- and there is a most determined and persistent effort to mask this switch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that respects not, is not respected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that respects not, is not respected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54215]]></link><description><![CDATA[I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two are as near one another as extreme wisdom and folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye,  Thy steps I follow with my bosom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye,  Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,   Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8844]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready ;saddled and bridled to be ridden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8783]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked Alan if he knew of any mentoring programs, and he told me to put my resume together and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32718]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked Alan if he knew of any mentoring programs, and he told me to put my resume together and he'd get it in the hands of other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a character. He's a real crack up, just a goofy wrestler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28350]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a character. He's a real crack up, just a goofy wrestler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see in the market any real driving forces. People aren't too excited one way or another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30761]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see in the market any real driving forces. People aren't too excited one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30761</guid></item></channel></rss>