<?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[Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26135]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am bound to take care of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories,  But the eternal substance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories,  But the eternal substance of his greatness,--   To which I leave him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60188]]></link><description><![CDATA[A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66007]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how discouraged we get, God has not asked us to do the impossible ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17021]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how discouraged we get, God has not asked us to do the impossible]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They appeal to people who want something that's going to last and survive the elements and at the same time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42573]]></link><description><![CDATA[They appeal to people who want something that's going to last and survive the elements and at the same time make a strong fashion statement when paired with jeans or a skirt. They're not for the shy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power- power to oppress others. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power- power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was only early the next morning that I found out she had come to the service and left from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was only early the next morning that I found out she had come to the service and left from her reception to go to her father's deathbed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23534]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60101]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My figure ... never felt like an asset until I started dancing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32613]]></link><description><![CDATA[My figure ... never felt like an asset until I started dancing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58388]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may know a man by the company he keeps ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23481]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may know a man by the company he keeps]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9037]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer — anything but a fighter. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer — anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54764]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale;  Look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13221]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale;  Look down with an utter contempt upon butter,   And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63382]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14519]]></link><description><![CDATA[One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44089]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55766]]></link><description><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool  Prelusive drops, let all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool  Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow   In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should have cut back and gotten into the end zone. I thought I could make it. I should have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should have cut back and gotten into the end zone. I thought I could make it. I should have lifted my knees up a little higher. Maybe I could have gotten in there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12128]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38401]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  Logic may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  Logic may be viewed, perhaps, as a machine which is designed, at best, to be such that when we feed into it certain data and turn the logic crank, we inevitably get certain conclusions out the other end. Logic is designed to give inevitably true results starting from known true -- or assumed-to-be-true -- premises. Logic is a wonderful tool when we want only logical conclusions. We should not reject such a machine merely because it is not equipped to handle all of reality. The scientist who commits himself to use a logic machine is doing wisely, qua scientist, for use on data of science. But if he feeds into that machine convictions that there is not God, or ignores God because He is not in his corpus of data, and then draws from his logic the conclusion that God does not exist, his conclusion is irrelevant. Logic is a tool; it should not be made into a religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12952]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61583]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62211]]></link><description><![CDATA[He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is somthing that can not be explained - the force that drives us to protect the ones we care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is somthing that can not be explained - the force that drives us to protect the ones we care about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54018</guid></item></channel></rss>