<?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[What is high finance? It’s knowing the difference between one and ten, multiplying, subtracting and adding. You just add noughts. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15683]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is high finance? It’s knowing the difference between one and ten, multiplying, subtracting and adding. You just add noughts. It’s no more than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54812]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58075]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25079]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62536]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and the lives of people you love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209   The words "divine service" should be reassigned and no longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209   The words "divine service" should be reassigned and no longer used for attending church, but only for good deeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9720]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.  [Ger., Ein guter Mensch, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17859]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.  [Ger., Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange,   Ist sich des rechten Weges sohl bewusst.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46414]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4526]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good laugh is sunshine in the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63987]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good laugh is sunshine in the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seize the loud, vociferous fells, and Clashing, clanging to the pavement  Hurl them from their windy tower! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seize the loud, vociferous fells, and Clashing, clanging to the pavement  Hurl them from their windy tower!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2240]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? [Lat., Stemmata quid faciunt, quid prodest, Pontice, longo,  Sanguine censeri pictosque ostendere vultus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The holy grail of our research is to convince those cells to regenerate, but now, we need to first understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The holy grail of our research is to convince those cells to regenerate, but now, we need to first understand what the composition of hair cells are and how they develop. We believe that a molecular understanding of the function of hair cells is needed to ultimately prevent hearing loss, and stimulate the regeneration of hair cells in mammals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Replacing McCabe was a big step for Jake. He had seasoned kids around him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Replacing McCabe was a big step for Jake. He had seasoned kids around him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48579]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most respected women are the most oppressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most respected women are the most oppressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful assertiveness technique is to repeat your command with the confidence that the child will soon yield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3383]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful assertiveness technique is to repeat your command with the confidence that the child will soon yield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't look for more honor than your learning merits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hire tea by the tea bag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hire tea by the tea bag.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53528]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/287]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of large trunks filled with Enron documents were sent [to] Andersen's main Houston office to be shredded,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Jesus takes possession of our life, it is not only that the past is forgotten and forgiven; if that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7507]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Jesus takes possession of our life, it is not only that the past is forgotten and forgiven; if that were all, we might well proceed to make the same mess of life all over again; but into life there enters this new power which enables us to be what by ourselves we could never be, and to do what by ourselves we could never do. Water and the Spirit stand for the cleansing and the strengthening power of Christ, which wipes out the past and which gives us victory in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still, year after year strong mercury rules fail in Washington under pressure from corporate interests. Why? Not because the risks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still, year after year strong mercury rules fail in Washington under pressure from corporate interests. Why? Not because the risks of mercury poisoning aren’t real. No, lobbyists for the big industries just say they can’t afford to make changes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big deal for us ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â all those corny things kids did in those days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33070]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big deal for us ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â all those corny things kids did in those days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's happening in England, it's happening in Sweden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36586]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's happening in England, it's happening in Sweden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting that motel next door as much as anything is the story. Parking expansion is absolutely essential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting that motel next door as much as anything is the story. Parking expansion is absolutely essential.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't get a lawyer who knows law then get the one who knows the Judge !. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1422]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't get a lawyer who knows law then get the one who knows the Judge !.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a property listed with 'For Sale' signs outside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40647]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a property listed with 'For Sale' signs outside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linux is not user-friendly. It _is_ user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Linux is not user-friendly. It _is_ user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, Dance like nobody's watching, Sing like nobody's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, Dance like nobody's watching, Sing like nobody's listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Priding himself in the pursuits of an inglorious ease. [Lat., Studiis florentem ignobilis oti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Priding himself in the pursuits of an inglorious ease. [Lat., Studiis florentem ignobilis oti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62597]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the art of thinking with sounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the art of thinking with sounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59857]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling. -Robert M. Pirsig.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62903</guid></item></channel></rss>