<?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[Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The offender never pardons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The offender never pardons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43608]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47400]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,rnAnd therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,rnAnd therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The city is huge. Humongous buildings. I was really surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The city is huge. Humongous buildings. I was really surprised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil events from evil causes spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil events from evil causes spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In many respects, we're fighting the last intelligence war. We have not pursued data mining in the way we should. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38712]]></link><description><![CDATA[In many respects, we're fighting the last intelligence war. We have not pursued data mining in the way we should.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth,  And that was shining on him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14853]]></link><description><![CDATA[And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth,  And that was shining on him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like they said let's put a Post-it note on a turtle and then sit back and say we did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like they said let's put a Post-it note on a turtle and then sit back and say we did our duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor lone woman. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55919]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor lone woman. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. [Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. [Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had kicked the door in. Evidently they had set the pulpit on fire and went out the front door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38914]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had kicked the door in. Evidently they had set the pulpit on fire and went out the front door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43256]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like we said yesterday, we'll be happy with top five. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like we said yesterday, we'll be happy with top five.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above!  Beneath the sliding sun thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above!  Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race,   Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place;    For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear,     Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year;      Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly,       Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You began better than you have finished; the last act is not equal to the first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50815]]></link><description><![CDATA[You began better than you have finished; the last act is not equal to the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63367]]></link><description><![CDATA[If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/296]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all they would forget. She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft. She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts. They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/866]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50736]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In July 2004 we made two undercover purchases of crack cocaine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29251]]></link><description><![CDATA[In July 2004 we made two undercover purchases of crack cocaine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9503]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is why, all the girls in town / Follow you / All around / Just like me / They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10927]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is why, all the girls in town / Follow you / All around / Just like me / They long to be / Close to you / On the day that you were born the angels got together / And decided to create a dream come true / So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair and golden starlight in your eyes of blue...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which is why I get shocked when I see how other people experience me. I see myself primarily in a domestic setting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51499]]></link><description><![CDATA[All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65394]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60317]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hockey is our national theater, our water cooler talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hockey is our national theater, our water cooler talk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric  Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25121]]></link><description><![CDATA[For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric  Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,   To smatter French is meritorious.   - Samuel Butler (1),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor ""royal road,"" to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38356]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor ""royal road,"" to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is long, difficult, and unsafe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38356</guid></item></channel></rss>