<?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[Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert Hubbard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert Hubbard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66683]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the rest of the country is getting a little bit better picture of what it is to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the rest of the country is getting a little bit better picture of what it is to be a Vermonter. He's voting his conscience. I just wish the rest of the Congress was like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60333]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. -The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. is fully an attractive place to invest; it's the safest country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. is fully an attractive place to invest; it's the safest country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53225]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I did everything by the book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was just a smart move for me, based on me and my family huddling together and doing what was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29522]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was just a smart move for me, based on me and my family huddling together and doing what was best for me. I came here, my grades improved, everything just turned around completely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61867]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44148]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now let us sing, long live the king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now let us sing, long live the king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56407]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not going to see a (buying and selling) frenzy. For the time being it should ... give investors some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34229]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not going to see a (buying and selling) frenzy. For the time being it should ... give investors some comfort there is some value out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more suspicious. They take everything as an affront; and from their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58417]]></link><description><![CDATA[All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more suspicious. They take everything as an affront; and from their conscious weakness, presume that they are neglected. [Lat., Omnes quibus res sunt minus secundae magis sunt, nescio quomodo,  Suspiciosi; ad contumeliam omnia accipiunt magis;   Propter suam impotentiam se credunt negligi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No character before its time. The scripts will dictate which is first, ... I cannot wait to tell Captain America's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29751]]></link><description><![CDATA[No character before its time. The scripts will dictate which is first, ... I cannot wait to tell Captain America's story. It's a doozy of a story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20612]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much of this game is mental. If you get mentally prepared and you're practicing the way you should, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32226]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much of this game is mental. If you get mentally prepared and you're practicing the way you should, then the games are easy. It's just a mind-set. Work hard in practice and the game becomes easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66469]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under NASA policy, it is inappropriate to discuss personnel matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under NASA policy, it is inappropriate to discuss personnel matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore I say again I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul  Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore I say again I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul  Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once more   I hold my most malicious for and think not    At all a friend to truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8216]]></link><description><![CDATA[As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone -- which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2127]]></link><description><![CDATA[You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. [Lat., Fundamenta ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. [Lat., Fundamenta justitiae sunt, ut ne cui noceatur, deinde ut communi utilitati serviatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why be concerned? There's a lot of baseball left to play. We haven't pressed all year so there's no reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why be concerned? There's a lot of baseball left to play. We haven't pressed all year so there's no reason to start now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. [It., Muore per meta chi lascia un' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47841]]></link><description><![CDATA[He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. [It., Muore per meta chi lascia un' immagine di se stesso nei figi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When to secure your bald pate from the weather, You lately wore a cape of black neats' leather;  He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When to secure your bald pate from the weather, You lately wore a cape of black neats' leather;  He was a very wag, who to you said,   "Why do you wear your slippers on your head?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She must temper her anger and frustration. We have work too hard to lose the public relations battle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38909]]></link><description><![CDATA[She must temper her anger and frustration. We have work too hard to lose the public relations battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44167]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The paths of glory lead but to the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The paths of glory lead but to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue;  For all the water in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue;  For all the water in the ocean   Can never turn the swan's black legs to white,    Although she lave them hourly in the flood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt,  And night by night the monitory blast   Wails in the key-hole, telling how it pass'd    O'er empty fields, or upland solitudes,     Or grim wide wave; and now the power is felt      Of melancholy, tenderer in its moods       Than any joy indulgent Summer dealt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; Ten ports ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60261]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; Ten ports a-jamming; Nine floppies frying; Eight gettys dying; Seven blown partitions; Six bad controllers; Five core dumps; Four bad blocks; Three heads crashed; Two faulty tapes; And a burnt-out V.D.T.  On the thirteenth day I started adapting my Nintendo for the VME bus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109  For I seek not to understand in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109  For I seek not to understand in order that I may believe; but I believe in order that I may understand, for I believe for this reason: that unless I believe, I cannot understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and soregretfully upon the closed door that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21185]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and soregretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which hasopened for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53705</guid></item></channel></rss>