<?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[If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danger of our government ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8798]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danger of our government running America in the wrong way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any belief worth having must survive doubt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any belief worth having must survive doubt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We met--'twas a crowd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26808]]></link><description><![CDATA[We met--'twas a crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GM takes no position on the matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28667]]></link><description><![CDATA[GM takes no position on the matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!  [Lat., O caeca nocentum consilia!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!  [Lat., O caeca nocentum consilia!   O semper timidum scelus!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50914]]></link><description><![CDATA[We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5605]]></link><description><![CDATA[It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public. [Lat., Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public. [Lat., Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're going to win games you aren't supposed to win and lose games you aren't supposed to lose. We weren't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32705]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're going to win games you aren't supposed to win and lose games you aren't supposed to lose. We weren't supposed to lose this game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11344]]></link><description><![CDATA[How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death's pale flag advanced in his cheeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death's pale flag advanced in his cheeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5945]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Blue Valley) has a vision for being the best school district in the nation, ... I hope we can provide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39541]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Blue Valley) has a vision for being the best school district in the nation, ... I hope we can provide some kind of model. Not just for the metropolitan area but for the nation as a whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922   A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922   A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There cannot be two kinds of medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41458]]></link><description><![CDATA[There cannot be two kinds of medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a man, since the time he fled in 1981, has never had a job, ... He has a rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a man, since the time he fled in 1981, has never had a job, ... He has a rich wife ... he has a magnificent house. He has the method, the means and the money to make his escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then on! then on! where duty leads, My course be onward still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then on! then on! where duty leads, My course be onward still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part, I think they've been pretty good. The crew we had the first and second nights were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41140]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part, I think they've been pretty good. The crew we had the first and second nights were professional-looking. There were a few ball-strike calls I didn't like, but that's going to happen in the big leagues or anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The neer to the church, the further from God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The neer to the church, the further from God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13758]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families with babies and families without are so sorry for each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families with babies and families without are so sorry for each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten,  Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten,  Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land!   . . . .    Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!     In Dixie Land I'll take my stand      To lib and die in Dixie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16439]]></link><description><![CDATA[The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  You go to your saint and find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  You go to your saint and find God working and manifest in him. He got near to God by some saint of his that went before him, or that stood beside him, in whom he saw the divine presence. That saint again lighted his fire at some flame before him; and so the power of the sainthoods animates and fills the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gull shall whistle in his wake, the blind wave break in fire. He shall fulfill God's utmost will, unknowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gull shall whistle in his wake, the blind wave break in fire. He shall fulfill God's utmost will, unknowing His desire,  And he shall see old planets pass and alien stars arise,   And give the gale his reckless sail in shadow of new skies.    Strong lust of gear shall drive him out and hunger arm his hand,     To wring his food from a desert nude, his foothold from the sand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius without education is like silver in the mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius without education is like silver in the mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The physician heals, Nature makes well. [Lat., Medicus curat, Natura sanat morbus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The physician heals, Nature makes well. [Lat., Medicus curat, Natura sanat morbus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1970s and 1980s, many biologists thought wolverines were gone from Washington. It's only in the last 10 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39741]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1970s and 1980s, many biologists thought wolverines were gone from Washington. It's only in the last 10 years we were sure they were here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suretyship is the precursor of ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suretyship is the precursor of ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a result of this, people are calling for one or two more Fed moves. The dollar is going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34925]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a result of this, people are calling for one or two more Fed moves. The dollar is going to be a little bid on this one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26106]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn't heal anything. I don't know how or what does the healing, but it isn't Time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18903</guid></item></channel></rss>