<?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 reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's prudent to take every precaution you can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38753]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's prudent to take every precaution you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a cursory glance at history should convince one that individual crimes committed for selfish motives play a quite insignificant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a cursory glance at history should convince one that individual crimes committed for selfish motives play a quite insignificant part in the human tragedy, compared to the numbers massacred in unselfish loyalty to one's tribe, nation, dynasty, church, or political ideology, ad majorem gloriam dei. The emphasis is on unselfish. Excepting a small minority of mercenary or sadistic disposition, wars are not fought for personal gain, but out of loyalty and devotion to king, country or cause. Homicide committed for personal reasons is a statistical rarity in all cultures, including our own. Homicide for unselfish reasons, at the risk of one's own life, is the dominant phenomenon of history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269   The offertory is the first essential action of the Liturgy, because in it we make the costly and solemn oblation, under tokens, of our very selves and all our substance, that they may be transformed, quickened, and devoted to the interests of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods too are fond of a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods too are fond of a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and beneath,   Grottoes and temples with their crystal spires    And gleaming columns radiant in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52904]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:  In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay is a great procuress ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay is a great procuress]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The DTI identified a weakness in the supply chain where universities and research institutes had no way of going from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37018]]></link><description><![CDATA[The DTI identified a weakness in the supply chain where universities and research institutes had no way of going from proof-of-concept to prototyping and early manufacturing stages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accurate information is a key part of motivation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accurate information is a key part of motivation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66713]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not sure if other arrangements to buy zinc have already been made at this point. Generally, we buy products ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38690]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not sure if other arrangements to buy zinc have already been made at this point. Generally, we buy products on contract for a length of time. The link of the contract is something that is based on the volatility of a particular product, and the price of zinc has been going up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addison Walker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addison Walker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10577]]></link><description><![CDATA[An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51442]]></link><description><![CDATA[How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54019]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59526]]></link><description><![CDATA[What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike the iron whilst it is hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike the iron whilst it is hot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever did this must have known what they were doing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever did this must have known what they were doing,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recruited him to come here and play football, not to look cute. He's been doing that ever since Day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36937]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recruited him to come here and play football, not to look cute. He's been doing that ever since Day One.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46288]]></link><description><![CDATA[If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59530]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentlemans grayhound, and a salt-box; seeke them at the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49025]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentlemans grayhound, and a salt-box; seeke them at the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is the best possible cure for dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is the best possible cure for dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way,  That private reason 'tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12633]]></link><description><![CDATA[And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way,  That private reason 'tis more just to curb,   Than by disputes the public peace disturb;    For points obscure are of small use to learn,     But common quiet is mankind's concern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an inside job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an inside job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three signs of great men are -- generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17258]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three signs of great men are -- generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12594]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before green apples blush, Before green nuts embrown,  Why, one day in the country   Is worth a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before green apples blush, Before green nuts embrown,  Why, one day in the country   Is worth a month in town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when human rights are being thrown aside, ignored, well, there's no game in progress, that's all -- in spite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19935]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when human rights are being thrown aside, ignored, well, there's no game in progress, that's all -- in spite of the childhood bible, the comic strip. It believes that only when you're permitted to murder, kill, rob and burn can a game be in progress. That is the message carried to us by the Sunday papers. And that is the message which every child erroneously learns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snug as a bug in a rug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Snug as a bug in a rug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My son already knows how to program my phone. I think technology is good. ... They are learning the skills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40527]]></link><description><![CDATA[My son already knows how to program my phone. I think technology is good. ... They are learning the skills they need at a much younger age. They have their own computers. They have it all. They're spoiled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In death a hero, as in life a friend!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11266]]></link><description><![CDATA[In death a hero, as in life a friend!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death's pale flag advanced in his cheeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death's pale flag advanced in his cheeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he that once is good, is ever great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18262]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he that once is good, is ever great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I'll live long enough to shoot my age. I'm lucky to shoot my weight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I'll live long enough to shoot my age. I'm lucky to shoot my weight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5808]]></link><description><![CDATA[An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12275</guid></item></channel></rss>