<?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 believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14887]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If inflation continues, the two-car garage will be replaced by the two-family garage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20837]]></link><description><![CDATA[If inflation continues, the two-car garage will be replaced by the two-family garage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. ne great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. ne great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. •Otto Von Bismarck  Peace with a club in hand is war. •Portuguese Proverb   The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. •Bernard Mannes Baruch  The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. •Chinese Proverb   Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing a lot of these. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34395]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing a lot of these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The White House is the finest prison in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The White House is the finest prison in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors should remember that if we do see companies start hitting estimates and not beating them, that wouldn't be such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors should remember that if we do see companies start hitting estimates and not beating them, that wouldn't be such a bad thing. It would mean there's less earnings management going on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  If one thing is clear as soon as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  If one thing is clear as soon as the Church becomes serious about its missionary and ministerial calling for the world, it is that two difficult roads in particular have to be trodden: first, the road towards overcoming the scantiness of its knowledge of the world of today, and its ignoring of what really goes on in the world under its surface; secondly, the road towards reforming its spirit, atmosphere, and inherited structure, in so far as they give no room for new vitality... What can and must be said and resaid, with all gratitude for what in many places is already happening, is that a fearless scrutiny and revision of structure is one of the most urgent aspects of a renewal of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money doesn't talk, it swears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money doesn't talk, it swears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reggaeton is the first Spanish-language genre that Mexicans like, Caribbeans like it and South Americans like it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reggaeton is the first Spanish-language genre that Mexicans like, Caribbeans like it and South Americans like it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lie and listen to the hissing waves, Wherein our boat seems sharpening its keel,  Which on the sea's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4399]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lie and listen to the hissing waves, Wherein our boat seems sharpening its keel,  Which on the sea's face all unthankful graves   An arrowed scratch as with a tool of steel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64191]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20422]]></link><description><![CDATA[But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It showed that we can win different kinds of ways. I think that was something we were lacking at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33269]]></link><description><![CDATA[It showed that we can win different kinds of ways. I think that was something we were lacking at the end of last season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43512]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22311]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14976]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and rightly--faith in God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26142]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18541]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's scary, ... Doctors and patients have come to believe that prescription drugs are more effective and safer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41455]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's scary, ... Doctors and patients have come to believe that prescription drugs are more effective and safer than they probably are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17032]]></link><description><![CDATA[You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63212]]></link><description><![CDATA[With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There is a misplaced sense of loyalty which makes many Christians feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There is a misplaced sense of loyalty which makes many Christians feel reluctant to come out in open opposition to anything that calls itself by the same name, or uses words like "God" and "Christ"; even Christians who in practice dislike superstition as much as I do still often treat it as a minor aberration to be hushed up rather than a radical perversion to be denounced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first dish pleaseth all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49851]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first dish pleaseth all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope tomorrow we can finish this matter. The final day will be when we say this is the constitution ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36221]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope tomorrow we can finish this matter. The final day will be when we say this is the constitution draft which everybody agreed on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.  [Fr., L'or donne aux plus laids certain charme pour plaire,   Et que sans lui le reste est une triste affaire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can fill a whole hand up with Super Bowl rings, and those haven't been seen around here. He knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38169]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can fill a whole hand up with Super Bowl rings, and those haven't been seen around here. He knows what needs to be done. All he needs is a little time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door;  The chest contriv'd a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door;  The chest contriv'd a double debt to pay,   A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4260]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22625]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not going to be a superman every time you go out onto the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28448]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not going to be a superman every time you go out onto the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime you go on the road, it's tough. Our kids have fared well away from home and have done a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime you go on the road, it's tough. Our kids have fared well away from home and have done a good job of getting ready each week and coming out fired up and ready to play. I don't expect anything different now, because our kids have stepped up in the big games. That's something you've got to be able to do in this district, and we can't go in worried about the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you'vemolded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you'vemolded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when you'vemade your new skills strong through hard use. All of a sudden these newconcepts stopped churning within you, and a new reality is born: You andthe concepts are one. They have literally become you. You have becomethem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't beat yourself up over past mistakes. Hold your head high and dry your tears. A new day is here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't beat yourself up over past mistakes. Hold your head high and dry your tears. A new day is here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is a violent school-mistress. [Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is a violent school-mistress. [Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won'tsucceed; you must have a larger ambition. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won'tsucceed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in businesssuccess...If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfullywithin these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so muchabout, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58220]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those guys put you in a situation to win every game. That's why they are in the top four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those guys put you in a situation to win every game. That's why they are in the top four.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32149</guid></item></channel></rss>