<?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[...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9539]]></link><description><![CDATA[...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. In my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882  The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. In all our heart; that is, in all our understanding without erring. In all our soul; that is, in all our will without gainsaying. In all our thought; that is, that we think on Him without forgetting. In this manner is very love and true, that is work of man's will. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good example has twice the value of good advice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14384]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good example has twice the value of good advice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts,  Thou fount of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts,  Thou fount of life, thou Light of men,  From the best bliss that earth imparts  We turn unfilled to Thee again.  We taste Thee, O Thou living Bread,  And long to feast upon Thee still:  We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead,  And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.   O Jesus, ever with us stay,  Make all our moments calm and bright;  Chase the dark night of sin away,  Shed o'er the world Thy holy light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47091]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh my goodness. They showed a lot of heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh my goodness. They showed a lot of heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[develop internal resources and transform them into internal investments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29696]]></link><description><![CDATA[develop internal resources and transform them into internal investments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the nuclear option. Actually, the nuclear option would be shutting down the plant. This is the neutron bomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30162]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the nuclear option. Actually, the nuclear option would be shutting down the plant. This is the neutron bomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill! But let it whistle as it will,  We'll keep up Christmas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill! But let it whistle as it will,  We'll keep up Christmas merry still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A horrid stillness first invades the ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56286]]></link><description><![CDATA[A horrid stillness first invades the ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fairy stitching gleams On the sides and in the seams,  And it shows   That Pixies were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fairy stitching gleams On the sides and in the seams,  And it shows   That Pixies were the wags    Who tipped these funny tags     And these toes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would rather give than get affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would rather give than get affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For nothing human foreign was to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19960]]></link><description><![CDATA[For nothing human foreign was to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63061]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impatience is the mark of independence not of bondage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impatience is the mark of independence not of bondage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong. [Or, What doesn't kill youmakes you stronger.]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21074]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong. [Or, What doesn't kill youmakes you stronger.].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58735]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61638]]></link><description><![CDATA[As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36860]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Managing our emotions increases intuition and clarity. It helps us self-regulate our brain chemicals and internal hormones. It gives us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Managing our emotions increases intuition and clarity. It helps us self-regulate our brain chemicals and internal hormones. It gives us natural highs, the real fountain of youth we've been searching for. It enables us to drink from elixirs locked within our cells, just waiting for us to discover them. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the outages were related to winds. In some areas, the ground was so saturated that the wind knocked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32813]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the outages were related to winds. In some areas, the ground was so saturated that the wind knocked trees over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[not to allow Lebanon to be a passage for conspiracy against Syria. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29896]]></link><description><![CDATA[not to allow Lebanon to be a passage for conspiracy against Syria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't understand why they were waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40834]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't understand why they were waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The borough has labor counsel and labor counsel is not here, so we are not in a position to respond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The borough has labor counsel and labor counsel is not here, so we are not in a position to respond to the offer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a leap of faith. The agreement is under 10 pages long and we could have signed 100 pages, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41940]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a leap of faith. The agreement is under 10 pages long and we could have signed 100 pages, but what counts is not words but deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything that happens is a jolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything that happens is a jolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;  An' what he thought 'e ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46641]]></link><description><![CDATA[When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;  An' what he thought 'e might require,   'E went an' took--the same as me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry of scholars advances wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry of scholars advances wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is a life worth while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that is throwne would ever wrestle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that is throwne would ever wrestle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are vehemently opposed to these types of crimes; unfortunately, when these things happen, it gives fuel to people who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40494]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are vehemently opposed to these types of crimes; unfortunately, when these things happen, it gives fuel to people who are already against the release of this information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is an action, not a position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is an action, not a position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is the illusion of permanance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is the illusion of permanance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High prices may not be enough of an incentive for risky developments in conventional oil, let alone oil shale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29515]]></link><description><![CDATA[High prices may not be enough of an incentive for risky developments in conventional oil, let alone oil shale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29515</guid></item></channel></rss>