<?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 question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If these compromises (by the committee) come through, there's going to be a lot of buy-in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29352]]></link><description><![CDATA[If these compromises (by the committee) come through, there's going to be a lot of buy-in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's like a third defenseman back there for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's like a third defenseman back there for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's the furthest thing from a distraction, I think it brings an excitement. We've played a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's the furthest thing from a distraction, I think it brings an excitement. We've played a lot of games in a short stretch here, and this should certainly be something that brings out a spark in us, no doubt about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25031]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26614]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been thinking about this for the last four years. After 34 years, it's just time to do something else. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40446]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been thinking about this for the last four years. After 34 years, it's just time to do something else. It's lasted about 30 years longer than I expected it to. But it's all worked out pretty well and I'm glad I decided to stay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems.  And that's a big mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62845]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems.  And that's a big mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Ms. Fitch will work through June 30, she will complete the fiscal year and her successor will be drawn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37193]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Ms. Fitch will work through June 30, she will complete the fiscal year and her successor will be drawn from the new pool now forming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it Cry 'No recovery.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48205]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it Cry 'No recovery.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53397]]></link><description><![CDATA[A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36828]]></link><description><![CDATA[I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knives are out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knives are out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no prettier fall then carnival ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5279]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no prettier fall then carnival]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes lots of practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29159]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes lots of practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was my dream to help people in Afghanistan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34803]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was my dream to help people in Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel.  To lower good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel.  To lower good, and beauties less divine,   Sometimes my erroneous needle does incline;    But yet (so strong the sympathy)     It turns, and points again to Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pythagorean, as well as the Platonic philosophers, probably concurred in the fabrication of the Christian Trinity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38413]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Pythagorean, as well as the Platonic philosophers, probably concurred in the fabrication of the Christian Trinity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we,  As ever did sing in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we,  As ever did sing in a hempen string   Under the gallow-tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56496]]></link><description><![CDATA[An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will is character in action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will is character in action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man...should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man...should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/272]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53219]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37993]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gently on tiptoe Sunday creeps, Cheerfully from the stars he peeps,  Mortals are all asleep below,   None ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gently on tiptoe Sunday creeps, Cheerfully from the stars he peeps,  Mortals are all asleep below,   None in the village hears him go;    E'en chanticleer keeps very still,     For Sunday whispered, 'twas his will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.  [Ger., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.  [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte,   Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasmin two small jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasmin two small jumps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a good joke but we do it much better in England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23236]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a good joke but we do it much better in England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lend me thy pen To write a word  In the moonlight.   Pierrot, my friend!    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lend me thy pen To write a word  In the moonlight.   Pierrot, my friend!    My candle's out,     I've no more fire;--      For love of God       Open thy door!        [Fr., Au clair de la lune         Mon ami Pierrot,          Prete moi ta plume           Pour ecrire un mot;            Ma chandelle est morte,             Je n'ai plus de feu,              Ouvre moi ta porte,               Pour l'amour de Dieu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Love-star of the unbeloved March, When cold and shrill,  Forth flows beneath a low, dim-lighted arch   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10976]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Love-star of the unbeloved March, When cold and shrill,  Forth flows beneath a low, dim-lighted arch   The wind that beats sharp crag and barren hill,    And keeps unfilmed the lately torpid rill!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63213]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56425]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation, creativity, and enthusiasm are all linked. When you walk into a warehouse and the manager can't wait to show ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation, creativity, and enthusiasm are all linked. When you walk into a warehouse and the manager can't wait to show you what the staff has accomplished, you can feel the enthusiasm, excitement, and pride. When that energy doesn't exist, there probably isn't much innovation or creativity going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39265</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[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  He enters by the door who enters by Christ, who imitates the suffering of Christ, who is acquainted with the humility of Christ so as to feel and know that, if God became man for us, men should not think themselves God, but men. He who, being man, wishes to appear God, does not imitate Him who, being God, became man. Thou art not bid to think less of thyself than thou art, but to know what thou art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8479</guid></item></channel></rss>