<?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[The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. - Reflections on Life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thief believes everybody steals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46974]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thief believes everybody steals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43819]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give no time to finding fault of criticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give no time to finding fault of criticism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20359]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59107]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55052]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/282]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33789]]></link><description><![CDATA[So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your face into a concrete block, if the concrete block was doing 40 miles an hour back at you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had fun with it, ... I've been called everything from his grandson to his great-nephew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36788]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had fun with it, ... I've been called everything from his grandson to his great-nephew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would lose my way again, be led hopelessly astray again, just so I can pray again...For the mercy in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would lose my way again, be led hopelessly astray again, just so I can pray again...For the mercy in you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At no time was I involved with any negotiations or lobbying of the United Nations with regard to the oil-for-food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40217]]></link><description><![CDATA[At no time was I involved with any negotiations or lobbying of the United Nations with regard to the oil-for-food program inspection contract. I and others have stated this fact repeatedly. I am not aware of anyone who states otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akhond of Swat?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think there's any animosity between the two sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35837]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think there's any animosity between the two sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18224]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're the ones that will come in and play with the toys. They'll come and try on all the crazy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36534]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're the ones that will come in and play with the toys. They'll come and try on all the crazy hats we have back there. You'll see them playing as much as the kids are playing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10578]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless ourwalking is our preaching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21130]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless ourwalking is our preaching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They plainly saw the writing on the wall. They saw that the way they [crafted] the settlement would not withstand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37841]]></link><description><![CDATA[They plainly saw the writing on the wall. They saw that the way they [crafted] the settlement would not withstand the court's review. So they retreated, making it a private handshake deal between the two of them. As a result, it won't be enforceable in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52222]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5510]]></link><description><![CDATA[And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake;  For all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake;  For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man   Is blackened--Man's forgiveness give and take!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3735]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. [Lat., Incisa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. [Lat., Incisa notis marmora publicis,  Per quae spiritus et vita redit bonis   Post mortem ducibus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really get two weeks instead of three (after the dead period). It will be fast and furious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38027]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really get two weeks instead of three (after the dead period). It will be fast and furious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing that a sinner can reasonably hope for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complain to one who can help you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complain to one who can help you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14907]]></link><description><![CDATA[My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good scare is worth more than good advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/798]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good scare is worth more than good advice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is grappling with this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is grappling with this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it 'dull' that Jesse James once got bitten on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it 'dull' that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't seem like anything, but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a doctor in town, and the secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor, and the doctor put some salve on it? You call that dull?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although it's only the beginning of the championship, I am very surprised at my capability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although it's only the beginning of the championship, I am very surprised at my capability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8659]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great fight. It was a hard win for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29052]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great fight. It was a hard win for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can speculate what's going to happen, but upsets happen in sports all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42349]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can speculate what's going to happen, but upsets happen in sports all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How fallen, how changed From him, who, in the happy realms of light,  Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50653]]></link><description><![CDATA[How fallen, how changed From him, who, in the happy realms of light,  Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine   Myriads, though bright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13580]]></link><description><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9034</guid></item></channel></rss>