<?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[In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment. That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22819]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25256]]></link><description><![CDATA[All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ready to talk, but it is just an exploratory conversation, since Brazil isn't negotiating with the United Kingdom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31255]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ready to talk, but it is just an exploratory conversation, since Brazil isn't negotiating with the United Kingdom. The negotiation involves the G-20 (the group of 21 developing countries), Europe, and the United States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never buy shoes early in the day when your feet are their smallest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never buy shoes early in the day when your feet are their smallest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25237]]></link><description><![CDATA[We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the sanest thing to do is just wallow in the misery for a while. Then climb out, grab a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the sanest thing to do is just wallow in the misery for a while. Then climb out, grab a towel, dry off, and go about living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754   The Pauline teaching is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754   The Pauline teaching is the means through which God Himself wants to teach us; Paul's Epistle to the Romans is a letter from God to us, mankind today. It remains the great problem of interpretation, hitherto never entirely solved, how to unite these two things: the keen attention to what Paul wanted to say to that community then, and the search for what God wants to say to us through Paul today. In the end, the question is whether the reader will really allow God to speak to him, or whether he evades God by hiding behind "Paul", behind "the past".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14248]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tremendous honor and a great responsibility to follow in Tim Taylor's footsteps as head hockey coach at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39695]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tremendous honor and a great responsibility to follow in Tim Taylor's footsteps as head hockey coach at Yale. His impact on Yale, Yale Hockey, and me personally has been profound. I enthusiastically embrace the challenge of building upon his legacy while taking the Yale Hockey program to the next level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19976]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19416]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66240]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1448]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too long, that some may rest, Tired millions toil unblest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too long, that some may rest, Tired millions toil unblest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we do here also affects the county -- and vice versa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37738]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we do here also affects the county -- and vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56776]]></link><description><![CDATA[A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret  To think more happy thou hadst been  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61863]]></link><description><![CDATA[My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret  To think more happy thou hadst been   If we had never met!    And has that thought been shared by thee?     Ah, no! that smiling cheek      Proves more unchanging love for me       Than labor'd words could speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604  All that which our blessed Saviour wrought in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604  All that which our blessed Saviour wrought in his mortal body, he did it for our example and instruction, to the end that, following his steps, according to our poor ability, we might without offense pass over this present life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jelly beans it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23209]]></link><description><![CDATA[For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jelly beans it would take to fill up Soldier Field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Democrats voiced their argument that Bush is too extreme on abortion for most voters.] Republicans try to avoid the issue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38162]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Democrats voiced their argument that Bush is too extreme on abortion for most voters.] Republicans try to avoid the issue to get nominated, ... They never can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we not all members of the same Body and partakers of the same Spirit and heirs of the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are we not all members of the same Body and partakers of the same Spirit and heirs of the same blessed hope of eternal life? ... Why do we not, as becomes brethren, dwell together in unity, but are so apt to quarrel and break out into heats, to crumble into sects and parties, to divide and separate from one another upon every trifling occasion? Give me leave... in the name of our dear Lord ... to recommend to you this new commandment of his, that ye love one another. Which is almost a new commandment still, and hardly the worse for wearing, so seldom is it put on, and so little hath it been practiced among Christians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike my subject, I will make my song. It shall be witty, and it shan't be long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike my subject, I will make my song. It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1765]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/361]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/555]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother, necessarily. This is a guy in search of truth. Incidentally, that truth one day could save your life or the life of someone you love. That's a heroic thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4452]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst, Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,  All woe and sorrow; life inflicts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst, Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,  All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst   On soul and body,--but we cannot die,    Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn,--     Lo, all things can be borne!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very cool. We thought it was part of the show. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40505]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very cool. We thought it was part of the show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game was just lacking the intensity. (Mostly) going through the motions, hard to get into the flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game was just lacking the intensity. (Mostly) going through the motions, hard to get into the flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62232</guid></item></channel></rss>