<?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[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4010]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't, this is it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40173]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't, this is it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep telling them to please review my magazine and compare it with ... adult men's lifestyle magazines already in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34722]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep telling them to please review my magazine and compare it with ... adult men's lifestyle magazines already in Indonesia. But they keep telling me to change the name Playboy, not the content. It's ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ad astra [To the stars] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ad astra [To the stars]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each time a student fails, the district is required to notify the parents and provide the student accelerated instruction in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each time a student fails, the district is required to notify the parents and provide the student accelerated instruction in a setting of not more than 10 students to one teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/95]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/95</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted more teeth in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40397]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted more teeth in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. [Lat., Socratem audio dicentem, cibi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. [Lat., Socratem audio dicentem, cibi condimentum essa famem, potionis sitim.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59621]]></link><description><![CDATA[They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us. [Lat., Coelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt.  Strenua nos exercet inertia, navibus atque   Quadrigis petimus bene vivere; quod petis hic est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2093]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Father and His Two DaughtersA man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Father and His Two DaughtersA man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to a tile-maker. After a time he went to the daughter who had married the gardener, and inquired how she was and how all things went with her. She said, All things are prospering with me, and I have only one wish, that there may be a heavy fall of rain, in order that the plants may be well watered. Not long after, he went to the daughter who had married the tilemaker, and likewise inquired of her how she fared; she replied, I want for nothing, and have only one wish, that the dry weather may continue, and the sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricks might be dried. He said to her, If your sister wishes for rain, and you for dry weather, with which of the two am I to join my wishes?'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Boone and Latham) are game players. Those two tie our inside and outside together. They did their jobs well down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41229]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Boone and Latham) are game players. Those two tie our inside and outside together. They did their jobs well down the stretch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64583]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year,  A handsome house to lodge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year,  A handsome house to lodge a friend,   A river at my garden's end,    A terrace walk, and half a rood     Of land, set out to plant a wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a pretty good game. The refs called two penalties at the end and it helped us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42302]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a pretty good game. The refs called two penalties at the end and it helped us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us letus down is because we believe those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21447]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us letus down is because we believe those things and people shouldn't. Well,sorry, that's not life here on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't accept the maxim 'there's no gain without pain', physical or emotional. I believe it is possible to develop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48337]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't accept the maxim 'there's no gain without pain', physical or emotional. I believe it is possible to develop and grow with joy rather than grief. However, when the pain comes my way, I try to get the most growth out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That guy is a beast. Not only is he big but he's smart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38877]]></link><description><![CDATA[That guy is a beast. Not only is he big but he's smart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never sleeping, still awake, Pleasing most when most I speak;  The delight of old and young,   Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never sleeping, still awake, Pleasing most when most I speak;  The delight of old and young,   Though I speak without a tongue.    Nought but one thing can confound me,     Many voices joining round me,      Then I fret, and rave, and gabble,       Like the labourers of Babel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a blessing and love is a gift. Do not let it go easily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a blessing and love is a gift. Do not let it go easily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is honor among thieves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59070]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is honor among thieves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the highest-ranking union officers in the state is given a half-million-dollar gift by a sitting U.S. senator. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30729]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the highest-ranking union officers in the state is given a half-million-dollar gift by a sitting U.S. senator. That is precisely the type of transaction the Senate wants to know about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some time, his good time, I shall arrive; He guides me and the bird  In his good time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51917]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some time, his good time, I shall arrive; He guides me and the bird  In his good time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is the best garden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49891]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is the best garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fast closed with double grills And triple gates--the cell  To wicked souls is hell;   But to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fast closed with double grills And triple gates--the cell  To wicked souls is hell;   But to a mind that's innocent    'Tis only iron, wood and stone.     [Fr., Doubles grilles a gros cloux,      Triples portes, forts verroux,       Aux ames vraiment mechantes        Vous representez l'enfer;         Mais aux ames innocentes          Vous n'etes que du bois, des pierres, du fer.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small companies are the real innovators in this market, ... but if the burdens around IP become too heavy, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small companies are the real innovators in this market, ... but if the burdens around IP become too heavy, and there are too many lawsuits, those companies will withdraw from the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good.  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23043]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good.  The Emerald of Europe, it sparkled and shone   In the ring of this world, the most precious stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your work speaks for itself, get out of the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22652]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your work speaks for itself, get out of the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;  Keep clean, be as fruit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;  Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch,   Till the white-wing'd reapers come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk to civilian life has been undermined and ignored by both parties in the name of military necessity. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk to civilian life has been undermined and ignored by both parties in the name of military necessity. They have to be watchful of the potential harm their negligence can do to the civilians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consolidation brought some negative comments. But these girls have led the way in helping bring everyone together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consolidation brought some negative comments. But these girls have led the way in helping bring everyone together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36468]]></link><description><![CDATA[In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging it even to himself, that in war he was likely to enjoy little profit or pleasure on the day when the long, low, black hull of the Yankee privateer, with her tapering, bending spars, her long-range guns, and her sharp-faced captain, should appear on the western horizon, and suddenly, at the sight of heavy-lumbering British merchantman, should fling out her white wings of canvas, and fly down on her prey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bow too tensely strung is easily broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58962]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things that I can't have I want,  And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things that I can't have I want,  And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't,  And what I have to do I hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're really starting to see the strongest influences of the '80s in spring 2006. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36158]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're really starting to see the strongest influences of the '80s in spring 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never again are we to look at the stars, as we did when we were children, and wonder how far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never again are we to look at the stars, as we did when we were children, and wonder how far it is to God. A being outside our world would be a spectator, looking on but taking no part in this life, where we try to be brave despite all the bafflement. A god who created, and withdrew, could be mighty, but he could not be love. Who could love a God remote, when suffering is our lot? Our God is closer than our problems, for they are out there, to be faced; He is here, beside us, Emmanuel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sorts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20907]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs. They have no tangibility, but they haunt us all the same and we can not get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. Ghosts must be all over the country. as thick as the sands of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20907</guid></item></channel></rss>