<?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 tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The recommendations in this year's report particularly make it clear that it is not just governments that are involved here. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The recommendations in this year's report particularly make it clear that it is not just governments that are involved here. Civil society has a huge role to play, communities have a huge role to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63588]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wisewith other men's wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22683]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wisewith other men's wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5455]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53391]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His golden locks time hath to silver turned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50821]]></link><description><![CDATA[His golden locks time hath to silver turned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of that stuff about James Bond, that's Hollywood. You don't want anyone standing out in the intelligence business. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30314]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of that stuff about James Bond, that's Hollywood. You don't want anyone standing out in the intelligence business. You want someone nondescript. The ideal spy is 5-foot-6 and kind of dumpy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've personally used e2fsprogs 1.05 to make a 54bib partition. That's a lot of bibs. I thought a double chin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've personally used e2fsprogs 1.05 to make a 54bib partition. That's a lot of bibs. I thought a double chin was a lot, but to need 54 bibs, it would have to be a FAT partition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Olivia:) What's a drunken man like, fool? (Clown:) Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One draught above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22936]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Olivia:) What's a drunken man like, fool? (Clown:) Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One draught above heat makes him a fool, the seconds mads him, and a third drowns him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47152]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7691]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46573]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, n. -- A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, n. -- A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11734]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we build to that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A joy shared is a joy doubled ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23390]]></link><description><![CDATA[A joy shared is a joy doubled]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cholesterol in and of itself isn't harmful; it's an integral part of the normal function of our body, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cholesterol in and of itself isn't harmful; it's an integral part of the normal function of our body,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culling has begun. We are taking the help of farm workers also to destroy the poultry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culling has begun. We are taking the help of farm workers also to destroy the poultry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer  Cry cock-a-diddle-dowe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer  Cry cock-a-diddle-dowe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply enough to prayer that I always want to do something myself in it, wherein I do very wrong and wish most definitely to cut off and separate my mind from all that, and to hold it with all my strength, as much as I can, to the sole regard and simple unity. By allowing the fear of being ineffectual to enter into the state of prayer, and by wishing to accomplish something myself, I spoilt it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something given that way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something given that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You carry a very heavy burden, Prime Minister. You carry the hopes and dreams of every Japanese alive today and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29712]]></link><description><![CDATA[You carry a very heavy burden, Prime Minister. You carry the hopes and dreams of every Japanese alive today and those of our honored ancestors. You literally carry Japan upon your back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14715]]></link><description><![CDATA[You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.  Or like the snow falls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46691]]></link><description><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.  Or like the snow falls in the river,   A moment white--then melts forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44150]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[diamonds shine more brightly foiled by black velvet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/723]]></link><description><![CDATA[diamonds shine more brightly foiled by black velvet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24587]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5700]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine for the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine for the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is praised and starves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is praised and starves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, where did hunter win So delicate a skin  For her feet?   You lucky little kid,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, where did hunter win So delicate a skin  For her feet?   You lucky little kid,    You perished, so you did,     For my sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me that after 12 years of lawlessness and disorder that we would be able to hold an ideal democratic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me that after 12 years of lawlessness and disorder that we would be able to hold an ideal democratic election in just a year or two. What's important is that we are moving toward democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're just learning the basics, like fielding and throwing. And they're going to make a lot of mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35399]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're just learning the basics, like fielding and throwing. And they're going to make a lot of mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35399</guid></item></channel></rss>