<?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[It was harder racing the track today than it was the competition. The heat was a factor and it had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was harder racing the track today than it was the competition. The heat was a factor and it had an effect on the racing. It's hard to sit there and run lap after lap without any relief. And today, there wasn't any relief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, it's a business trip for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, it's a business trip for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. . -C.G. Jung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63916]]></link><description><![CDATA[In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got it going a little bit toward the backside of the back nine and then on the front I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got it going a little bit toward the backside of the back nine and then on the front I hit it pretty good and made most of the putts that are looked at. It was a good putting day basically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor lies in honest toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor lies in honest toil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the purpose of categorical algebra is to show that which is trivial, is trivially trivial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the purpose of categorical algebra is to show that which is trivial, is trivially trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this will be to the business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56864]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru;  Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru;  Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,   And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say "to-morrow" never comes, A saying oft thought right;  But if to-morrow never came,   No end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say "to-morrow" never comes, A saying oft thought right;  But if to-morrow never came,   No end were of "to-night."    The fact is this, time flies so fast,     That e'er we've time to say      "To-morrow's come," presto! behold!       "To-morrow" proves "To-day."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38398]]></link><description><![CDATA[By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47398]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again a different meaning has to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again a different meaning has to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College students have a lot of things they are concerned about, but the fact that 39 percent is most concerned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40253]]></link><description><![CDATA[College students have a lot of things they are concerned about, but the fact that 39 percent is most concerned with the war in Iraq is worth studying because that's about 20 percentage points higher than the general public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50252]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom--for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom--for himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1972]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot see the mountain near ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60842]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot see the mountain near]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not aw'd to duty by superior sway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.] [Lat., Ea molestissime ferre homines ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.] [Lat., Ea molestissime ferre homines debent quae ipsorum culpa ferenda sunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts. [Lat., Si quoties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56394]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts. [Lat., Si quoties homines peccant sua fulmina mittat  Jupiter, exiguo tempore inermis erit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I called out to her and said to bring Jasmine back and I would hold onto her, ... She said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I called out to her and said to bring Jasmine back and I would hold onto her, ... She said her daughter had just got off the bus, she was going to go get her and come right back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is part of the main ... Any man's death diminishes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26276]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is part of the main ... Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14956]]></link><description><![CDATA[You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were ten lepers healed, and only one turned back to give thanks, but it is to be noticed that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6893]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were ten lepers healed, and only one turned back to give thanks, but it is to be noticed that our Lord did not recall His gift from the other nine because of their lack of gratitude. When we begin to lessen our acts of kindness and helpfulness because we think those who receive do not properly appreciate what is done for them, it is time to question our own motives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43094]]></link><description><![CDATA["Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath no head, needes no heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath no head, needes no heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is like fire without light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is like fire without light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)  I thank Thee, O Lord God, that though with liberal hand Thou hast at all times showered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)  I thank Thee, O Lord God, that though with liberal hand Thou hast at all times showered thy blessing upon our human kind, yet in Jesus Christ Thou hast done greater Things for us than Thou ever didst before:  Making home sweeter and friends dearer:  Turning sorrow into gladness and pain into the soul's victory:  Robbing death of its sting:  Robbing sin of its power Making peace more peaceful and joy more joyful and faith and hope more secure. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58897</guid></item></channel></rss>