<?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[Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aut disce aut discede [Either learn or leave] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aut disce aut discede [Either learn or leave]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of promises were made last year. And in terms of public awareness, we've already won. Now we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of promises were made last year. And in terms of public awareness, we've already won. Now we have to shift the focus to the money, and how the money is used.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top  Has wounded the thick cloud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top  Has wounded the thick cloud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63948]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noise is greater then the nuts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noise is greater then the nuts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19548]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  Is a mediator between the eternal spirit and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  Is a mediator between the eternal spirit and the finite an unreality, an intrusion? The mystic soul may impatiently think so, but the moral soul finds such mediation the way to reality; and the mystic experience is not quite trustworthy about reality. The pagan gods had no mediators, because they were not real or good gods; but the living God has a living Revealer. To know the living God is to know Christ; to know Christ is to know the living God. We do not know God by Christ but in Him. We find God when we find Christ; and in Christ alone we know and share his final purpose. Our last knowledge is not the contact of our person with a thing or a thought; it is intercourse of person and person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year, our only issue is competitiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30205]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year, our only issue is competitiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64002]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our best player was hanging his head. He thought we had already lost. I got four steals and we ended ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our best player was hanging his head. He thought we had already lost. I got four steals and we ended up winning the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're certainly looking to expand our menswear offerings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32670]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're certainly looking to expand our menswear offerings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more dif.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/358]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart,  And press a suit with passion,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart,  And press a suit with passion,   Is not a woman's part.    If man come not to gather     The roses where they stand,      They fade among their foliage,       They cannot seek his hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63266]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make an efficient choice in moments of indecision, you establish more effectiveness within a given time span, saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6078]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make an efficient choice in moments of indecision, you establish more effectiveness within a given time span, saving energy and stress. That's a time shift. William Jennings Bryan Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43867]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All television is children's television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27709]]></link><description><![CDATA[All television is children's television.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56683]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64833]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11156]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a lot of people score and that's a plus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38279]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a lot of people score and that's a plus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20243]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. •G. K. Chesterton  Often a noble face hides filthy ways. •Euripides  The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teenage girls are too caught up in being with a guy who's the best for everyone else and not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teenage girls are too caught up in being with a guy who's the best for everyone else and not the best for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13663]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, the group must keep remembering that true growth in grace is not to be achieved by our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, the group must keep remembering that true growth in grace is not to be achieved by our own efforts or contriving, but must be received as the gift of God's Spirit, working in and among us. The work of the group is to keep open the channels of receptiveness through study, discipline, prayer, and self-offering. When a group learns to live in this faith, it can keep the lines of endeavor tentative and sensitive to new headings and possibilities, on the one hand; and, on the other, move forward resolutely under such light as is now given.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50281]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disney Hall is truly astonishingly beautiful. There is something about those silver petals that just makes you want to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disney Hall is truly astonishingly beautiful. There is something about those silver petals that just makes you want to be inside them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state is one vast insane asylum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21023]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state is one vast insane asylum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an area is disturbed, it upsets the natural balance and creates an ecological open space that gives non-natives a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28174]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an area is disturbed, it upsets the natural balance and creates an ecological open space that gives non-natives a foothold, ... Another thing is that Florida is not very species-diverse, so there are more options for invasion because there aren't many native species.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt, Since riches point to misery and contempt? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt, Since riches point to misery and contempt?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49963]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20663</guid></item></channel></rss>