<?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[Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bust patents for a living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bust patents for a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sing the Poppy! The frail snowy weed! The flower of Mercy! that within its heart  Doth keep "a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sing the Poppy! The frail snowy weed! The flower of Mercy! that within its heart  Doth keep "a drop serene" for human need,   A drowsy balm for every bitter smart.    For happy hours the Rose will idly blow--     The Poppy hath a charm for pain and woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their defense was good. They were on the body on the catch and just made you think about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their defense was good. They were on the body on the catch and just made you think about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47873]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43732]]></link><description><![CDATA[A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merritt and Ashley really got us going in the second half. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merritt and Ashley really got us going in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know what i hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54348]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know what i hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not all who wander are lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not all who wander are lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a fear of being boring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4734]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a fear of being boring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65170]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hurts a lot. As much as it's a tradition for football, we try to take it along with us. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42140]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hurts a lot. As much as it's a tradition for football, we try to take it along with us. We don't want to get beat by Michigan any time. To go up there and play like that just hurts a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find  A wife I need not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61862]]></link><description><![CDATA[And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find  A wife I need not blush to show   I've little further now to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. [Matthew 26:41]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. [Matthew 26:41].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait until you meet him at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every individual is the architect of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every individual is the architect of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9498]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54865]]></link><description><![CDATA[What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -Martin Mull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -Martin Mull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/344]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion is no substitute for justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion is no substitute for justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61867]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time discovers truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time discovers truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither have I said we have got to do this because of some pharmaceutical advantage there may or may not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither have I said we have got to do this because of some pharmaceutical advantage there may or may not be. The moral issue is that we should not impoverish this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our parking lot frequently (has) people cross through it. It could be anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our parking lot frequently (has) people cross through it. It could be anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! -As You Like It. Act v. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55691]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55691</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[Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38607]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain? Let it be so! Nature was her teacher, What if a lovely and unsistered creature  Loved her own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain? Let it be so! Nature was her teacher, What if a lovely and unsistered creature  Loved her own harmless gift of pleasing feature.   - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He attempts to use language which he does not know. [Lat., Negatas artifex sequi voces.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25131]]></link><description><![CDATA[He attempts to use language which he does not know. [Lat., Negatas artifex sequi voces.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25131</guid></item></channel></rss>