<?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[Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgement despite collective disapproval.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When's it going to get real? When are there going to be two sides? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40965]]></link><description><![CDATA[When's it going to get real? When are there going to be two sides?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told,  Now shade--now bright and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43079]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told,  Now shade--now bright and sunny--   But of all the lunar things that change,    The one that shows most fickle and strange,     And takes the most eccentric range,      Is the moon--so called--of honey!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66492]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being,  Through what new scenes and changes must we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being,  Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who hide can find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who hide can find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That government is best which governs least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47275]]></link><description><![CDATA[That government is best which governs least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould,  The more the marble wastes   The more the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould,  The more the marble wastes   The more the statue grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret isan appalling waste of energy; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret isan appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good forwallowing in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56867]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57811]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished by elderly scientists and supports the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9497]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished by elderly scientists and supports the idea with great fervour and emotion, the distinguished but elderly scientests are then, after all, right. -Isaac Asimov.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66916]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the nature of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the nature of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year may be President Bush's best year; it would have been President Clinton's worst year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28545]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year may be President Bush's best year; it would have been President Clinton's worst year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951  To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951  To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30721]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started doing stand-up in college. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31016]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started doing stand-up in college.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,   And make use of your wings while you may.    . . . .     But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite,      They at last found it dangerous play;       Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth,        Only dazzle to lead us astray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be a spot on the ground where nothing is growing, where somethingmight be planted, a seed, from the Absolute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be a spot on the ground where nothing is growing, where somethingmight be planted, a seed, from the Absolute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not sure who's Beta and who's VHS yet, ... It's not clear who's going to end up with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42463]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not sure who's Beta and who's VHS yet, ... It's not clear who's going to end up with the bulk of the liquidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65925]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hope of escaping with impunity is the greatest incentive to vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hope of escaping with impunity is the greatest incentive to vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; The world has grown gray from thy breath;  We have drunken from things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; The world has grown gray from thy breath;  We have drunken from things Lethean,   And fed on the fullness of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The industry has finally realized people are willing to pay for stat service and the content if it's good enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The industry has finally realized people are willing to pay for stat service and the content if it's good enough. No doubt the industry is much more stable business-wise because pay service has returned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If (union members) were going to end up paying so much more into the retirement plan or the health insurance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37148]]></link><description><![CDATA[If (union members) were going to end up paying so much more into the retirement plan or the health insurance ... why would you want to keep the job? You can't make a living at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be done except little by little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be done except little by little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby,  Knowing that with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby,  Knowing that with the shadow of his wings   He can at pleasure stint their melody:    Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8312]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember seeing those boats training and thinking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember seeing those boats training and thinking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16480]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!" [Lat., Intrantis medici facies tres esse videntur  Aegrotanti; hominis, Daemonis, atque Dei.   Cum primum accessit medicus dixitque salutem,    En Deus aut custos angelus, aeger ait.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an incredible serve. It's not a function of how fast it is. The trajectory is the main issue. You're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29180]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an incredible serve. It's not a function of how fast it is. The trajectory is the main issue. You're lunging, but then it's up. You're sort of diving, but then you can't reach it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good things come to an end. We had a team meeting and the girls are pretty determined to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29299]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good things come to an end. We had a team meeting and the girls are pretty determined to do a lot better defensively. Against Deer Park, we scored 69 points. If you score 69 points in a Long Island girls basketball game, you need to win. That said, I congratulated his kids after the game. They played a great game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285   If I slip into the place that can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285   If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64436]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd walk half way around the world... for just one kiss from you... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23841]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd walk half way around the world... for just one kiss from you...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23841</guid></item></channel></rss>