<?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[If you start a conversation with the assumptionthat you are right or that you must win,obviously it is difficult to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9065]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you start a conversation with the assumptionthat you are right or that you must win,obviously it is difficult to talk.He is author of the Citizenship Papers and answeredquestions at a Washington DC book store.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret wound still lives within the breast. [Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret wound still lives within the breast. [Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639   There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639   There is no defect in Scripture, so anyone may "have the light of his natural understanding so completed... that there can be no want of needful instruction" for any good work God would have that person do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge cannot replace friendship, I’d rather be an idiot than lose you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge cannot replace friendship, I’d rather be an idiot than lose you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am pleased to return to finish the job that is undone. And that is to lead the Columbus Crew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36107]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am pleased to return to finish the job that is undone. And that is to lead the Columbus Crew to the MLS Cup in 2004.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17671]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the Fates summon him, sing at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the Fates summon him, sing at the fords of Maeander.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merchant bar demand continues to draw strength from business investment while the previously booming consumer end-markets lose some luster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merchant bar demand continues to draw strength from business investment while the previously booming consumer end-markets lose some luster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57006]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, it wasn't my fault. I didn't shoot the man. But he was a civilian, and I ask myself, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, it wasn't my fault. I didn't shoot the man. But he was a civilian, and I ask myself, 'What was his fault?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt  Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak   Than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt  Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak   Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man,    Dressed in a little brief authority,     Most ignorant of what he's most assured      His glassy essence--like an angry ape       Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven        As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,         would all themselves laugh mortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up until now, we've done little but complain. Until now, we've stood by, watching native habitat disappear, and with it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up until now, we've done little but complain. Until now, we've stood by, watching native habitat disappear, and with it wildlife of all types. Instead of doing something, we've come to accept our present situation as inevitable and tolerable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go to Jericho. Let them all go to Jericho,  And ne'er be seen againe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go to Jericho. Let them all go to Jericho,  And ne'er be seen againe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world, the flesh, the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world, the flesh, the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This means a lot. We came through some dark days to get here. The kids never stopped practicing hard. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30478]]></link><description><![CDATA[This means a lot. We came through some dark days to get here. The kids never stopped practicing hard. They never stopped working ... I think this says a lot about their ability to persevere. It says a lot about their toughness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18774]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say "Storms suck!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A play is fiction-and fiction is fact distilled into truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34298]]></link><description><![CDATA[A play is fiction-and fiction is fact distilled into truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12433]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madame, bear in mind That princes govern all things--save the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madame, bear in mind That princes govern all things--save the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13536]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is fear that has said its prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer:  Hast thou the knack? pamper it not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer:  Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with liking;   But if thou want it, buy it not too deare    Many affecting wit beyond their power,     Have got to be a deare fool for an houre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25384]]></link><description><![CDATA[A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not closing the lower Manhattan location. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34557]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not closing the lower Manhattan location.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52851]]></link><description><![CDATA[I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never said this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28844]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never said this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sales growth in the first quarter was driven by strong order momentum across our product lines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sales growth in the first quarter was driven by strong order momentum across our product lines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49511]]></link><description><![CDATA[If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent;  The tent is struck, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60880]]></link><description><![CDATA[An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent;  The tent is struck, the vision stays;   I only know she came and went.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I really need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I really need to figure it out, but it's just not happening!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688   Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35745</guid></item></channel></rss>