<?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 process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized the parts, the more elaborate co-ordination is needed to create a well-balanced whole. The ultimate criterion of the value of a functional whole is the degree of its internal harmony or integratedness, whether the "functional whole" is a biological species or a civilization or an individual. A whole is defined by the pattern of relations between its parts, not by the sum of its parts; and a civilization is not defined by the sum of its science, technology, art and social organization, but by the total pattern which they form, and the degree of harmonious integration in that pattern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all living in a chemical soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all living in a chemical soup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can keep a mask on long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51173]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can keep a mask on long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -.Dr.Karl Menninger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -.Dr.Karl Menninger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old unix hackers don't die, they just turn into zombie processes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old unix hackers don't die, they just turn into zombie processes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could trace my origins to Judas Maccabaeus or King David, that would not add one inch to my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36749]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could trace my origins to Judas Maccabaeus or King David, that would not add one inch to my stature. It may well be that many East European Jews are descended from Khazars, I may be one of them. Who knows? And who cares?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We aren't going to go out and support an opponent of the current governor and sully the name of teachers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We aren't going to go out and support an opponent of the current governor and sully the name of teachers before a special session.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When his heart is glad Of the full harvest, I will speak to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51724]]></link><description><![CDATA[When his heart is glad Of the full harvest, I will speak to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12697]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled;  The flame that lit the battle's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled;  The flame that lit the battle's wreck,   Shone round him o'er the dead.    . . . .     The flames roll'd on--he would not go      Without his Father's word;       That father, faint in death below,        His voice no longer heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. To be great is to be misunderstood. Every man is in some way my superior. A man is a god in ruins. Life is a festival only to the wise. Knowledge is the only elegance. We boil at different degrees. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it. We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. What is the hardest thing in the world? To think. Accept your genius and say what you think. Make yourself necessary to somebody. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Music causes us to think eloquently. To live without duties is obscene. It is not length of life, but depth of life. The greatest homage to truth is to use it. The only reward of virtue is virtue. Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. We become what we think about all day long. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. There is no knowledge that is not power. Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right. A good indignation brings out all one's powers. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind. We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams. What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Our faith comes in moments, yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is merely through a transfer of idolatry. What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?. The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature. To think is to act. We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of somebody's enthusiasm. It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. This gives force to the strong - that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. -U.S. Poet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10689]]></link><description><![CDATA[All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is no evil unless it conquers us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1782]]></link><description><![CDATA[If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66803]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All life is an experiment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14658]]></link><description><![CDATA[All life is an experiment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't say I could do all that they do; they are really motivated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28856]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't say I could do all that they do; they are really motivated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A relationship is only complicated when one person is running it... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62940]]></link><description><![CDATA[A relationship is only complicated when one person is running it...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no question there were challenges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no question there were challenges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29584]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know how to put this into words. In 16 years of working in Triple-A baseball, Mario was right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35418]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know how to put this into words. In 16 years of working in Triple-A baseball, Mario was right at the top. There was just something about him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. [It., Spesso e da forte,  Piu che ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. [It., Spesso e da forte,  Piu che il morire, il vivere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18004]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives - they go only as far as the grave and leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond th]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a lot of nervous energy going on. We've been itching to get our hands on a ball and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39639]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a lot of nervous energy going on. We've been itching to get our hands on a ball and finally get out on this court, the one we've seen in our locker room for four years now. It's just really amazing to get out there and see what it's like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19457]]></link><description><![CDATA[History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -Colette. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14792]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -Colette.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In countries where DTH pay-TV has been available for over five years, as in North America and Europe, the market ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42645]]></link><description><![CDATA[In countries where DTH pay-TV has been available for over five years, as in North America and Europe, the market is mature and subscriber growth is slowing. Where DTH pay-TV platforms were launched after 2000, subscriber growth rates are higher. In India, for example, DTH pay-TV subscribers are expected to have tripled in 2005.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My biological work convinced me that the One who was declared dead by Nietzsche, and silent by Sartre, actually is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6266]]></link><description><![CDATA[My biological work convinced me that the One who was declared dead by Nietzsche, and silent by Sartre, actually is very much alive and speaking to us through all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5934]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had reports from farmers that they had seen baby snakes and their mothers out together and I thought, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had reports from farmers that they had seen baby snakes and their mothers out together and I thought, this is crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My hope is to challenge asinine modes of thinking about femininity and provoke discourse about issues surrounding feminine roles, body ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29205]]></link><description><![CDATA[My hope is to challenge asinine modes of thinking about femininity and provoke discourse about issues surrounding feminine roles, body image and female sexuality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I praise loudly, I blame softly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I praise loudly, I blame softly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11455]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55169]]></link><description><![CDATA[People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them eat cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them eat cake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were very disappointed (by the loss). We've lost some wrestlers to attrition and injury, but we just didn't wrestle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38925]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were very disappointed (by the loss). We've lost some wrestlers to attrition and injury, but we just didn't wrestle particularly well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9040]]></link><description><![CDATA[To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her cabin'd ample spirit, It fluttered and fail'd for breath;  Tonight it doth inherit   The vasty hall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her cabin'd ample spirit, It fluttered and fail'd for breath;  Tonight it doth inherit   The vasty hall of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9370</guid></item></channel></rss>