<?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[But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12762]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46666]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Price stability, exchange rate stability, consistency of economic policy. That is all taking place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Price stability, exchange rate stability, consistency of economic policy. That is all taking place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character.Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48003]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum  Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good nature without prudence, is foolishness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good nature without prudence, is foolishness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25079]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15018]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix;  Every other thirty-one,   Except the second month ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix;  Every other thirty-one,   Except the second month alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you masterthe old rule, you are then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21483]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you masterthe old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21483</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[The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came out flat, with no intensity. That's the inexperience of our ball club; we didn't look ready to play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35403]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came out flat, with no intensity. That's the inexperience of our ball club; we didn't look ready to play against one of the top teams around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill;  There's music in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43444]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill;  There's music in all things, if men had ears:   Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is one long process of getting tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is one long process of getting tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18874]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lesser you hear that people say about you, the more you succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lesser you hear that people say about you, the more you succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19740]]></link><description><![CDATA[What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are doing very well, making good money, more money than the rooms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35809]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are doing very well, making good money, more money than the rooms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2834]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visua]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27160]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She swore, i' faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61990]]></link><description><![CDATA[She swore, i' faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43867]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Byrd Amendment virtually defines corporate welfare. This is a massive payola scheme that takes money out of the US ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Byrd Amendment virtually defines corporate welfare. This is a massive payola scheme that takes money out of the US Treasury and uses it to line the pockets of private companies that have done nothing to earn it except sign on to antidumping petitions that drive up prices for American consumers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Autumn wood the aster knows, The empty nest, the wind that grieves,  The sunlight breaking thro' the shade, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Autumn wood the aster knows, The empty nest, the wind that grieves,  The sunlight breaking thro' the shade,   The squirrel chattering overhead,    The timid rabbits lighter tread     Among the rustling leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We couldn't make a basket and we just let it get away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32455]]></link><description><![CDATA[We couldn't make a basket and we just let it get away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benjamin Hardlysee decided to point it out to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benjamin Hardlysee decided to point it out to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65082</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31255</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 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1161]]></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/1161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It provided something pretty tempting for someone. We feel very lucky that nothing else was bothered in the library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It provided something pretty tempting for someone. We feel very lucky that nothing else was bothered in the library.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says "Amen" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says "Amen" and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My prediction? This move will be completely forgotten. Few to nobody will use it. And, 6 to 12 months from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42165]]></link><description><![CDATA[My prediction? This move will be completely forgotten. Few to nobody will use it. And, 6 to 12 months from now, Oracle will have to give a real response to the open-source threat it faces. Tossing a lightweight database in front of a fast-moving market that wants free, open, and killer databases just won't fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is significant confusion at the Fed itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36351]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is significant confusion at the Fed itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not bald... I'm just taller than my hair ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not bald... I'm just taller than my hair]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light.  The airs that hover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light.  The airs that hover in the summer sky   Are all asleep to-night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a fun question. A different way of looking at the extent people trust each other is that question. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39925]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a fun question. A different way of looking at the extent people trust each other is that question. Again, that's normative behavior. I know growing up we never had our door locked. That has changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62970</guid></item></channel></rss>