<?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[People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5092]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47294]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner. ("To know all is to forgive all.") ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner. ("To know all is to forgive all.") No commonplace is more untrue. Behavior, whether conditioned by an individual neurosis or by society, can be understood, that is to say, one knows exactly why such and such an individual behaves as he does. But a personal action or deed is always mysterious. When we really act, precisely because it is a matter of free choice, we can never say exactly why we do this rather than that. But it is only deeds that we are required to forgive. If someone does me an injury, the question of forgiveness only arises if I am convinced (a) that the injury he did me was a free act on his part and therefore no less mysterious to him than to me, and (b) that it was me personally whom he meant to injure. Christ does not forgive the soldiers who are nailing him to the Cross; he asks the Father to forgive them. He knows as well as they do why they are doing this -- they are a squad, detailed to execute a criminal. They do not know what they are doing, because it is not their business, as executioners, to know whom they are crucifying. If the person who does me an injury does not know what he is doing, then it is as ridiculous for me to talk about forgiving him as it would be for me to "forgive" a tile which falls on my head in a gale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was genuine fear - fear born of experience of a man that was mean and ugly, not crazy, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36920]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was genuine fear - fear born of experience of a man that was mean and ugly, not crazy, but mean and ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started out with nothing. I still have most of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2163]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56984]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meek Walton's heavenly memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meek Walton's heavenly memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of patients we see come in asking for topical medicines because of wax burns and scars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40744]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of patients we see come in asking for topical medicines because of wax burns and scars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60618]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd He that has none, must make them or be wretched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd He that has none, must make them or be wretched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No creature smarts so little as a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50941]]></link><description><![CDATA[No creature smarts so little as a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52750]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the police, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39051]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the police, they passed it on to the highway department.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other things may change us, but we start and end with family ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other things may change us, but we start and end with family]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every honest miller has a golden thumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every honest miller has a golden thumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we were missing some tackles. This means we're going to make sure we send more people to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35240]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we were missing some tackles. This means we're going to make sure we send more people to the ball. That's what we'll need this week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The multitude is always in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The multitude is always in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. No matter what, no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25920]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. No matter what, no matter where, it's always home, if love is there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22876]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."   - Thomas Carlyle,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ermine is going in the right direction. Someone needs to go through the park every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ermine is going in the right direction. Someone needs to go through the park every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wish for death is a coward's part. [Lat., Timidi est optare necem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10492]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wish for death is a coward's part. [Lat., Timidi est optare necem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and relationships are truly one of the most paradoxical aspects of being human. For it is in love that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and relationships are truly one of the most paradoxical aspects of being human. For it is in love that we find the greatest of strengths and the deepest of sorrows. Love can seem to be so fleeting and unachievable yet it remains well within our reach if we only learn how to embrace it's power. To experience true love, we must be willing to open ourselves up and sacrifice part of our heart and part of our soul. We must be willing to give of ourselves freely, and we must be willing to suffer. It is only when we expose our inner selves to the white hot flame of rejection, that love can burn so brightly as to join to souls, melding the two into one, creating a bond that joins forever. It is from this bond that we draw strength eternal and power ever lasting. It is in this thing that we call love that we find the means to achieve greatness, both in ourselves and in our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57765]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66140]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They like being in front. They don't like losing. Hopefully we can let them not like losing a couple more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31646]]></link><description><![CDATA[They like being in front. They don't like losing. Hopefully we can let them not like losing a couple more times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All for Our Country ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43273]]></link><description><![CDATA[All for Our Country]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door;  The chest contriv'd a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door;  The chest contriv'd a double debt to pay,   A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25152]]></link><description><![CDATA[No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too technical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just looked a lot worse than it was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just looked a lot worse than it was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63829]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12229</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[It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42198]]></link><description><![CDATA[It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48896</guid></item></channel></rss>