<?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[A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To illustrate the difference between the innovator and the dull crowd of routinists who cannot even imagine that any improvement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52022]]></link><description><![CDATA[To illustrate the difference between the innovator and the dull crowd of routinists who cannot even imagine that any improvement is possible, we need only refer to a passage in Engel's most famous book. Here, in 1878, Engels apodictically announced that military weapons are "now so perfected that no further progress of any revolutionizing influence is any longer possible." Henceforth "all further [technological] progress is by and large indifferent for land warfare. The age of evolution is in this regard essentially closed." This complacent conclusion shows in what the achievement of the innovator consists: he accomplishes what other people believe to be unthinkable and unfeasible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is listening until you make a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28030]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is listening until you make a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big energy lobbyists may be cheering the bill's enactment, but ordinary Americans had better hold fast to their wallets. As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big energy lobbyists may be cheering the bill's enactment, but ordinary Americans had better hold fast to their wallets. As gasoline prices careen out of control, the bill keeps America speeding down the wrong road toward more oil consumption, more drilling, and more pollution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Brookfield Academy) had trouble adjusting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37893]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Brookfield Academy) had trouble adjusting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole sport is odd, but within the sport it's even an odd kind of race because of the fact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33772]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole sport is odd, but within the sport it's even an odd kind of race because of the fact that it seems so difficult. Those who do it seem to love it and embrace it. Others kind of look askance on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The postman always rings twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The postman always rings twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to receive than to do an injury. [Lat., Accipere quam facere injuiam praestat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20913]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to receive than to do an injury. [Lat., Accipere quam facere injuiam praestat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13659]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I lived back in the old west days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I lived back in the old west days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a solid-gold pick. Then I'd go out West and start digging for gold. When someone came up and asked what I was doing, I'd say, "Looking for gold, ya durn fool." He'd say, "Your pick is gold," and I'd say, "Well, that was easy." Good joke, huh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In other men we faults may spy, And blame the mote that dims their eye;  Each little speck and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23532]]></link><description><![CDATA[In other men we faults may spy, And blame the mote that dims their eye;  Each little speck and blemish find,   To our own stronger errors blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can guard him. He's strong with a low center of gravity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40355]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can guard him. He's strong with a low center of gravity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm so surprised and happy to have won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41385]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm so surprised and happy to have won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59847]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27051]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are looking for reasons to sell the dollar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28442]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are looking for reasons to sell the dollar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1757]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the butsyou use today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the butsyou use today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it falls right on the weekend, when St. Patrick's Day comes on Friday or Saturday it's perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30206]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it falls right on the weekend, when St. Patrick's Day comes on Friday or Saturday it's perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the fawn just died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41802]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the fawn just died.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, but the path with ultimately reveal itself. My job is to be a decent human being no matter how rocky the road gets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19646]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5635]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been under intense pressure to come back to work, but the best my colleagues can do is a backroom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been under intense pressure to come back to work, but the best my colleagues can do is a backroom deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stol'n out of holy writ,  And seem a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51508]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stol'n out of holy writ,  And seem a saint when most I play the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56790]]></link><description><![CDATA[...in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24175]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not completely finalized, but I talked with Steve (Wednesday) and he has given me a proxy to go ahead. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30306]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not completely finalized, but I talked with Steve (Wednesday) and he has given me a proxy to go ahead. It's not really 'official' official, but the building is on hold, and we've got the date (from Showtime), so we're just about there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16520]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64334]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nancy and I had a couple dreams when we opened three years ago. To get (renowned blues artist) Tommy Castro ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nancy and I had a couple dreams when we opened three years ago. To get (renowned blues artist) Tommy Castro and David Allan Coe to perform. Tommy and his band played here last spring and now David.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it doesn't happen, we'll simply have to interrupt the talks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33693]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it doesn't happen, we'll simply have to interrupt the talks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope we can plug into your efforts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42291]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope we can plug into your efforts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Milosevic was in power all ethnic Albanians preferred having the west on their side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41762]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Milosevic was in power all ethnic Albanians preferred having the west on their side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood ... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46363]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25311]]></link><description><![CDATA[In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26445]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreading that climax of all earthly ills, The inflammation of his weekly bills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreading that climax of all earthly ills, The inflammation of his weekly bills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To satisfy the sharp desire I had Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd  Not to defer; hunger and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2946]]></link><description><![CDATA[To satisfy the sharp desire I had Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd  Not to defer; hunger and thirst at once   Powerful persuaders, quicken'd at the scent    Of that alluring fruit, urged me so keen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37187]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each other's dreams, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54387]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each other's dreams, we'll always be together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14821]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14821</guid></item></channel></rss>