<?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[If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54187]]></link><description><![CDATA[If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all born mad. Some remain so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54679]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all born mad. Some remain so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured itout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured itout.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19514]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power- power to oppress others. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power- power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[- "I've been thinking Hobbes --"- "On a weekend?"- "Well, it wasn't on purpose..." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61502]]></link><description><![CDATA[- "I've been thinking Hobbes --"- "On a weekend?"- "Well, it wasn't on purpose..."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I went to the copy machine, the medal went to the copy machine, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35436]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I went to the copy machine, the medal went to the copy machine, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would fain die a dry death. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56109]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would fain die a dry death. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we propose to ignore in a great man's teaching those doctrines which it has in common with the thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8518]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we propose to ignore in a great man's teaching those doctrines which it has in common with the thought of his age, we seem to be assuming that the thought of his age was erroneous. When we select for serious consideration those doctrines which "transcend" the thought of his own age and are "for all time", we are assuming that the thought of our age is correct: for of course by thoughts which transcend the great man's age we really mean thoughts that agree with ours. Thus I value Shakespeare's picture of the transformation in old Lear more than I value his views about the divine right of kings, because I agree with Shakespeare that a man can be purified by suffering like Lear, but do not believe that kings (or any other rulers) have divine right in the sense required. When the great man's views do not seem to us erroneous we do not value them the less for having been shared with his contemporaries. Shakespeare's disdain for treachery and Christ's blessing on the poor were not alien to the outlook of their respective periods; but no one wishes to discredit them on that account.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One picture is worth ten thousand words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48615]]></link><description><![CDATA[One picture is worth ten thousand words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5707]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A college education shows a man how little other people know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13498]]></link><description><![CDATA[A college education shows a man how little other people know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a great football team right here. This was our most complete game of the year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34083]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a great football team right here. This was our most complete game of the year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unto the pure all things are pure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unto the pure all things are pure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a young kid, who at 35 had beat a 30-year politician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40645]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a young kid, who at 35 had beat a 30-year politician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58408]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. -Alden Nowlan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of the season, (university president) Dr. (Charles) Dougherty and I will take a look at where we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36072]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of the season, (university president) Dr. (Charles) Dougherty and I will take a look at where we are and where we stand for the future. ... We need to put an established product and winner on the men's basketball court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was ready to do things the right way when he got out, but when young men are put in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42026]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was ready to do things the right way when he got out, but when young men are put in prison and then thrown back on the street and have no training for anything they go right back into the pit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49415]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27550]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids really played well. They were focused from the start. We couldn't have won the game without any one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids really played well. They were focused from the start. We couldn't have won the game without any one player out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of the possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of the possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air,  His form and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57147]]></link><description><![CDATA[He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air,  His form and movement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At high speeds, there's no chatter; they just charge through everything. Every one of the designs we have, no one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30026]]></link><description><![CDATA[At high speeds, there's no chatter; they just charge through everything. Every one of the designs we have, no one has ever done it before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will directs the tongue or the hand to act, and the evil word is spoken, or the evil deed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will directs the tongue or the hand to act, and the evil word is spoken, or the evil deed done. Every time we sin, it is the whole of us that sins, and not just a part. The body is only the instrument of the mind and the will. All that God made, including the body with all its desires and instincts, is good in itself. But it has to be kept under control and used in the right way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are soon bagg'd but some reject three dozen. 'Tis fine to see them scattering refusals  And wild dismay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are soon bagg'd but some reject three dozen. 'Tis fine to see them scattering refusals  And wild dismay, o'er every angry cousin   (Friends of the party) who begin accusals,    Such as--"Unless Miss (Blank) meant to have chosen     Poor Frederick, why did she accord perusals      To his billets? Why waltz with him? Why, I pray,       Look yes least night, and yet say No to-day?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27266]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so far to resemble the old as to stone its prophets freely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother wouldn't let me just throw it back to him. He taught me how to long snap, and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34737]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother wouldn't let me just throw it back to him. He taught me how to long snap, and he told me I had to snap the ball back to him every time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was like, bing, bing, bing. They threw some big punches, and we just didn't respond like we have all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33248]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was like, bing, bing, bing. They threw some big punches, and we just didn't respond like we have all year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you masterthe old rule, you are then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21483]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you masterthe old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43927]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man meets his Waterloo at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man meets his Waterloo at last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Whose name was writ in water!" What large laughter Among the immortals when that word was brought!  Then when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43651]]></link><description><![CDATA["Whose name was writ in water!" What large laughter Among the immortals when that word was brought!  Then when his fiery spirit rose flaming after,   High toward the topmost heaven of heavens up-caught!    "All hail! our younger brother!" Shakespeare said,     And Dante nodded his imperial head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50880]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50880</guid></item></channel></rss>