<?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[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[To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61841]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45457]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Sun Clearest shineth  Serenest in the heaven,   Quickly are obscured    All over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58277]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Sun Clearest shineth  Serenest in the heaven,   Quickly are obscured    All over the earth     Other stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63316]]></link><description><![CDATA[You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born,  Coward or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12066]]></link><description><![CDATA[No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born,  Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  Christ became ever more and more painfully convinced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  Christ became ever more and more painfully convinced that men did not know God. They can't, He said, or they could not live as they are doing. Some of them are so anxious and worried, with all God's care and strength and love to lean against! They cannot know of it, and be so fidgety and nervous as they are. Some of them are afraid. Their consciences have drawn so grim a picture of Him that fearfully they shrink out of His presence, wish there were not God! Frightened of God, with His free and full and eager forgiveness, with His incredible generosity, with His compassionate heart that nobody can sour into illwill, do what he may. And even the best of them are not quite sure. Their faith at most is but a timorous hope, and a trembling perhaps; no more. Often in the Synagogue He had watched them sobbing out their penitential psalms and begging God to turn from anger and be gracious toward them... And it amazed Christ. Look at His sun, He cries, how it streams down in all its midday fullness on the most unworthy, and at the rain, how it falls healingly upon the fields of the least grateful, and how He keeps thrusting His benefits and blessings into the most soiled hands, loading the most impossible people with His kindnesses. If only I could make them see God as He really is: if only they could realize that He is their Father, that what their own child is to them, that, and far more, each of them is to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who knows football knows that everything starts up front on both sides of the ball, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who knows football knows that everything starts up front on both sides of the ball,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devill is not alwaies at one doore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49831]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday   I vehemently dissent from those who would not have private persons read the Holy Scriptures, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday   I vehemently dissent from those who would not have private persons read the Holy Scriptures, nor have them translated into the vulgar tongues. I would wish that all women -- girls even -- would read the Gospels and the letters of Paul. I wish that they were translated into all languages of all people. To make them understood is surely the first step. It may be that they might be ridiculed by many, but some would take them to heart. I long that the husbandman should sing portions of them to himself as he follows the plough, that the weaver should hum them to the tune of his shuttle, that the traveller should beguile with their stories the tedium of his journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62518]]></link><description><![CDATA[This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17616]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14427]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,  And great hearts expand   And grow one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,  And great hearts expand   And grow one in the sense of this world's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35197]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where lies the land, to which the ship would go?Far, far ahead is all, her seamen know.And where the land ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where lies the land, to which the ship would go?Far, far ahead is all, her seamen know.And where the land she travels from?Away, far far behind, is all that they can say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disco is just jitterbug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disco is just jitterbug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you live with another person for 50 years, all of your memories are invested in that person, like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26908]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you live with another person for 50 years, all of your memories are invested in that person, like a bank account of shared memories. It’s not that you refer to them constantly. In fact, for people who do not live in the past, you almost never say, Do you remember that night we...? But you don’t have to. That is the best of all. You know that the other person does remember. Thus, the past is part of the present as long as the other person lives. It is better than any scrapbook, because you are both living scrapbooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a tough call, but a sensible one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a tough call, but a sensible one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23810]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really don't want to get into the wood business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33959]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really don't want to get into the wood business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53740]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have things in the yard that might blow away, bring them inside and trim trees and other vegetation, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33956]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have things in the yard that might blow away, bring them inside and trim trees and other vegetation,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to avoid anything that looks like there is a partition, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to avoid anything that looks like there is a partition,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rather since every man is the son of his own works. [Sp., Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rather since every man is the son of his own works. [Sp., Quanto mas que cada uno es hijo de sus obras.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The second half, we seemed like we picked up the pressure more and once we did, it seemed like it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34199]]></link><description><![CDATA[The second half, we seemed like we picked up the pressure more and once we did, it seemed like it slowed them down to help us score a lot more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are like each other they tend to like each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21400]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are like each other they tend to like each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're getting 184 million a year, and they are only spending about 6 million a year for maintenance. More of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37882]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're getting 184 million a year, and they are only spending about 6 million a year for maintenance. More of that should be spent to maintain the buildings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We asked who our surveyed companies thought were leaders in SOA technology. IBM was mentioned most often, leading other providers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34615]]></link><description><![CDATA[We asked who our surveyed companies thought were leaders in SOA technology. IBM was mentioned most often, leading other providers nearly three to one,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I am speaking the opportunity is lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50812]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The developer has met all the requests and conditions that we've asked. All the issues that you brought up at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The developer has met all the requests and conditions that we've asked. All the issues that you brought up at our meeting, he's basically addressed those, and in my opinion gone above and beyond as far as putting out extra work and expending money out of his pocket to try to help accommodate people who are in a low-lying area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7675]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race. There is something more true in his denunciation of idolatry as sin than in our denial that it is possible for a man to worship an idol, or in our suggestion that all idolatry is only a road to spiritual worship of the one true God... One day, I think, we shall return to these stern doctrines, realizing in them a truth more profound than we now know, and then we shall preach them with conviction, and, being convinced ourselves, we shall convince others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steadypurpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steadypurpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53721]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madison's height took us out early in the game but we never quit. We continued to play our game. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madison's height took us out early in the game but we never quit. We continued to play our game. It is what we do. We play basketball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The lines that most pleased Anderson as composer are in the second verse:] Show the rainbow of your promise/There will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32437]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The lines that most pleased Anderson as composer are in the second verse:] Show the rainbow of your promise/There will be a brighter day. ... I wanted to write something that would convey a spirit of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1451</guid></item></channel></rss>