<?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[The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. [Lat., Abores serit diligens agricola, quarum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. [Lat., Abores serit diligens agricola, quarum adspiciet baccam ipse numquam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  We of the churches often gather our robes away from contamination, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  We of the churches often gather our robes away from contamination, and thank God that we are not as other men. We don't despise God's name; in fact, we call upon it constantly to justify ourselves... If we object to meat-eating, we declare that God is vegetarian; if we abhor war, we proclaim a pacifist Deity. He who turned water into wine to gladden a wedding it now accused by many of favouring that abominable fluid grape juice. There can hardly be a more evil way of taking God's name in vain than this way of presuming to speak in it. For here is spiritual pride, the ultimate sin, in action -- the sin of believing in one's own righteousness. The true prophet says humbly, "To me, a sinful man, God spoke." But the scribes and Pharisees declare, "When we speak, God agrees." They feel no need of a special revelation, for they are always, in their own view, infallible. It is this self-righteousness of the pious that most breeds atheism, by inspiring all decent, ordinary men with loathing of the enormous lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person is responsible for all the good with the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is responsible for all the good with the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.   - Gail Hamilton (pseudonym of Mary Abigail Dodge),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13251]]></link><description><![CDATA["Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleverness is not wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleverness is not wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a really hard decision. But he was really wanting me to come to Canada, and it just felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39360]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a really hard decision. But he was really wanting me to come to Canada, and it just felt like the right idea. Everybody thought I was crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought she wasn't playing as hard as she has been against other premier guards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought she wasn't playing as hard as she has been against other premier guards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe it is extremely important for the Japanese people to strive to accurately understand this past history along with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34520]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe it is extremely important for the Japanese people to strive to accurately understand this past history along with the ensuing era.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and dignity cannot share the same abode. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Caterpillar plant invited us to come. As you can imagine, the president gets invited to a lot of places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Caterpillar plant invited us to come. As you can imagine, the president gets invited to a lot of places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59273]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The police are not going to run this court. The defendants are not going to run this court. The defense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The police are not going to run this court. The defendants are not going to run this court. The defense attorneys are not going to run this court. The district attorney is not going to run this court. I'm going to run this court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65449]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easier to apologize than ask for permission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2710]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35191]]></link><description><![CDATA[A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53733]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51576]]></link><description><![CDATA[A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the longing for repetition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the longing for repetition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm from the city. I could care less what the zoning is out in the country, frankly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm from the city. I could care less what the zoning is out in the country, frankly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone!  When warring winds have died away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50688]]></link><description><![CDATA[How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone!  When warring winds have died away,   And clouds, beneath the glancing ray,    Melt off, and leave the land and sea     Sleeping in bright tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56029]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46294]]></link><description><![CDATA[A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1264]]></link><description><![CDATA[My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56055]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19191]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only two great groups of animals, men and ants, indulge in highly organized mass warfare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only two great groups of animals, men and ants, indulge in highly organized mass warfare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9831]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are treasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping to go five innings, and 15-pitch innings to get him up to 75 pitches, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping to go five innings, and 15-pitch innings to get him up to 75 pitches,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful sanctuaries, paved parking lots, and new liturgies will do very little for people who sit in worship with their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful sanctuaries, paved parking lots, and new liturgies will do very little for people who sit in worship with their fingers crossed and do not really believe the faith which is expounded. Often the layman dismisses what the preacher says as something irrelevant to his situation and generation. When he joins a group where he is no longer afraid to be frank, the supposedly faithful member often admits that he has never really accepted what he thinks he has heard. He has, for example, grave reservations about the idea of creation. Did not the world evolve of itself? Do we really need the hypothesis of Infinite Purpose to make sense of the physical, biological, and psychological development? These questions seldom come to the surface when the Church provides merely a one-way preaching. There is little chance of renewal if all that we have is the arrangement by which one speaks and the others listen. One trouble with this conventional system is that the speaker never knows what the unanswered questions are, or what reservations remain in the layman's mentality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is obviously a direct driver of inflation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34923]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is obviously a direct driver of inflation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give loosers leave to talke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give loosers leave to talke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50800]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62736</guid></item></channel></rss>