<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[You can speculate what's going to happen, but upsets happen in sports all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe isso constituted as to maximize play. The best games ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22382]]></link><description><![CDATA[In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe isso constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in whichall goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those inwhich the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life isdesigned to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty anduncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. Wesurvive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want itany other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19890]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy man be his dole! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy man be his dole! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than bytheir understandings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than bytheir understandings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bless'd, how envied, were our life, Could we but scape the poulterer's knife!  But man, curs'd man, on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8631]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bless'd, how envied, were our life, Could we but scape the poulterer's knife!  But man, curs'd man, on Turkeys preys,   And Christmas shortens all our days:    Sometimes with oysters we combine,     Sometimes assist the savory chine;      From the low peasant to the lord,       The Turkey smokes on every board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47565]]></link><description><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard of the fundamental equality as regards the right to self-preservation, the creature in human shape who acts in this way is to be treated by any and all other rational humans as a wild, clever, and therefore very dangerous animal, to be destroyed (if necessary) in order to safeguard the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust  That what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17838]]></link><description><![CDATA[What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust  That what will come, and must come, shall come well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are scared of technology ... And children to learn in various ways, and for some children this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are scared of technology ... And children to learn in various ways, and for some children this is a really good way, a good tool to be able to access information and learn from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15116]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy is better unborn than untaught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58745]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy is better unborn than untaught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20236]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which neverhappened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22680]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which neverhappened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent over five years fighting crime for the Secretary of State Police on the streets of East St. Louis, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33741]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent over five years fighting crime for the Secretary of State Police on the streets of East St. Louis, earning both a lifesaving award and the Secretary of State's Medal of Honor during that time. We like to think that Macoupin County is safe from the problems of the big city, but unfortunately, violent crimes and methamphetamine production are on the rise in rural areas. My experience working in St. Clair and Madison counties will better able me to confront methamphetamine production and violent crime head-on while still understanding the rural needs of Macoupin County.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When this project moves forward to a real hearing, there's going to be a significant outcry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31147]]></link><description><![CDATA[When this project moves forward to a real hearing, there's going to be a significant outcry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it would open up a beautiful part of North Dakota to the whole public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37878]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it would open up a beautiful part of North Dakota to the whole public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And hear the mighty stream of tendency Uttering, for elevation of our thought,  A clear sonorous voice, inaudible  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14367]]></link><description><![CDATA[And hear the mighty stream of tendency Uttering, for elevation of our thought,  A clear sonorous voice, inaudible   To the vast multitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2627]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Christ erecteth his church, the divell in the same church-yarde will have his chappell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where Christ erecteth his church, the divell in the same church-yarde will have his chappell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20569]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth. [Lat., Respicere exemplar vitae morumque jubebo  Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253  The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think for yourself whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As along as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9304]]></link><description><![CDATA[People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4559]]></link><description><![CDATA[For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be more aggressive on the boards and deny their penetration. We also have to shoot better than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42652]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be more aggressive on the boards and deny their penetration. We also have to shoot better than we have all season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodies birds sing madrigals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54327]]></link><description><![CDATA[By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodies birds sing madrigals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60410]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22028]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57369]]></link><description><![CDATA[They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35583]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;  Ring out the thousand wars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;  Ring out the thousand wars of old,   Ring in the thousand years of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship Will stay with us at the last, backed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38729]]></link><description><![CDATA[So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship Will stay with us at the last, backed by the night Whose ruse gave it our final meaning]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in this respect others were thought to follow. Men were more reasonable than women, more inventive, less swayed b]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41189]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62103]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a strange and wonderful place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a strange and wonderful place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid. [Lat., Blandoque veneno  Desidiae virtus paullatim evicta senescit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid. [Lat., Blandoque veneno  Desidiae virtus paullatim evicta senescit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59581]]></link><description><![CDATA[To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let but my scarlet head appear And I am held in scorn;  Yet juice of subtile virtue lies  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let but my scarlet head appear And I am held in scorn;  Yet juice of subtile virtue lies   Within my cup of curious dyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A home without books is a body without soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52991]]></link><description><![CDATA[A home without books is a body without soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hole and the patch should be commensurate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hole and the patch should be commensurate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spark is 100% focused on developing high quality, high-impact games with cinematic realism, and contextual, dynamic advertising is the perfect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spark is 100% focused on developing high quality, high-impact games with cinematic realism, and contextual, dynamic advertising is the perfect addition to that effort. Massive has the best technology, is simple to integrate, but most importantly, they share our passion for great game content. The revenues that we will generate through in-game advertising will provide the funds necessary to support greater innovations in development that will ultimately benefit our gaming audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9000]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9000</guid></item></channel></rss>