<?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[Time out for tack, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time out for tack,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dane Cook is one of the most exciting comedy stars to emerge on the scene in many years, and his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dane Cook is one of the most exciting comedy stars to emerge on the scene in many years, and his ability to connect with audiences is truly remarkable. HBO will be able to give this gifted performer the broadest, most unrestricted showcase for his talent, and we're delighted to welcome him to the network.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60591]]></link><description><![CDATA[We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the vile squeaking of the wry-necked fife. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55577]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the vile squeaking of the wry-necked fife. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15970]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. -Alan Watts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53929]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are they are they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent being toward God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1793]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the trends we saw from Comcast should be reflected in the results of other cable operators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the trends we saw from Comcast should be reflected in the results of other cable operators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20643]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19315]]></link><description><![CDATA[What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It can be a challenge for (flight crews) who aren't medical professionals. Outwardly, a respiratory infection can look like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39584]]></link><description><![CDATA[It can be a challenge for (flight crews) who aren't medical professionals. Outwardly, a respiratory infection can look like a common cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greensleeves was all my joy, Greensleeves was my delight,  Greensleeves was my heart of gold,   And who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greensleeves was all my joy, Greensleeves was my delight,  Greensleeves was my heart of gold,   And who but Lady Greensleeves?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36803]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once in royal David's city / Stood a lowly cattle shed, / Where a Mother laid her Baby / In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once in royal David's city / Stood a lowly cattle shed, / Where a Mother laid her Baby / In a manger for His bed: / Mary was that Mother mild, / Jesus Christ her little Child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind: So flewed, so sanded, and their heads are hung  With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19889]]></link><description><![CDATA[My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind: So flewed, so sanded, and their heads are hung  With ears that sweep away the morning dew;   Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls;    Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells,     Each under each.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of suffering is experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of suffering is experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons whose devotion is of long continuance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are governed not by armies, but by ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9540]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709   In the way of virtue, there is no standing still; anyone who does not daily advance, loses ground. To remain at a standstill is impossible; he that gains not, loses; he that ascends not, descends. If one does not ascend the ladder, one must descend; if one does not conquer, one will be conquered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54245]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way thingsturn out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way thingsturn out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17950]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inn of a traveller on his way to Jerusalem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inn of a traveller on his way to Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets are all who love,--who feel great truths, And tell them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets are all who love,--who feel great truths, And tell them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5112]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less routine the more life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less routine the more life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't change who you are. You gotta make adjustments, and we're a team that can play at multiple speeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32644]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't change who you are. You gotta make adjustments, and we're a team that can play at multiple speeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11401]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2413]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to go out and find that match, and we've gotten some support from various foundations and endowments so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37547]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to go out and find that match, and we've gotten some support from various foundations and endowments so far, but we have a long row to hoe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Place saw My best days, My Happiest, My Wife having blessed me with Your Brother Woodhouse... I Calculated, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38843]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Place saw My best days, My Happiest, My Wife having blessed me with Your Brother Woodhouse... I Calculated, to Live and died in Comfort, Our Business Was good of course We agreed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3584]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A camel is a horse designed by committee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18041]]></link><description><![CDATA[A camel is a horse designed by committee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream, An', taught by time, I tak' it so--exceptin' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream, An', taught by time, I tak' it so--exceptin' always steam,  From coupler-flange to spindle-guide I see thy Hand, O God--   Predestination in the stride o' yon connectin'-rod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56178</guid></item></channel></rss>