<?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[Religion and atheism will both survive it [the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion and atheism will both survive it [the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw them go; one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind,  Their shoes were on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19847]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw them go; one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind,  Their shoes were on their feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49270]]></link><description><![CDATA[God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a miracle. Everyone was telling us they were probably dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40943]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a miracle. Everyone was telling us they were probably dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6030]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  The desire for certitude is natural enough and explains the human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  The desire for certitude is natural enough and explains the human tendency to mistake faith for certainty. This is not a specially religious mistake. We think of supernaturalism when faith is mentioned, but the naturalistic description of the world also operates on assumptions that require a faith as robust as does the most soaring mysticism. The usual efforts to skirt faith beg all the questions there are. A psychiatrist, for instance, who points out to you that you believe in God the Father because you need a father, or that you became a missionary to expiate your guilt feelings, may be quite correct, but he has not touched on the prior question as to whether there is, in fact, a cosmic father figure who is the archetype of all other fathers, or whether there is an evangel worth spending your life promulgating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60027]]></link><description><![CDATA[We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8757]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44967]]></link><description><![CDATA[With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19418]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The general sessions did a great job in presenting a top down view of the industry as a whole, managing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The general sessions did a great job in presenting a top down view of the industry as a whole, managing to put all the pieces together in a perspective relative to each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12419]]></link><description><![CDATA[If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today we are reaching from younger people to? baby boomers and up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today we are reaching from younger people to? baby boomers and up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is no time for staring about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51833]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is no time for staring about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43725]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would find it bizarre to speak of tolerating blonds. For whatever reason, hair color has not been a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would find it bizarre to speak of tolerating blonds. For whatever reason, hair color has not been a basis of tribal identity or group politics in our culture; the concept of tolerance is never invoked in this context because there is too obviously nothing to tolerate. In a rational culture, the same would be true of race, ethnicity, and the like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing easily what others find it difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing easily what others find it difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of them want to lead with price, so if you have a network that is better, it's great. Spending ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39049]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of them want to lead with price, so if you have a network that is better, it's great. Spending on voice calls is falling even without a price war, so they don't want to cut prices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence  Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11025]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence  Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well,   With emphasis, and also with good sense--    A thing in footing indispensable:     He danced without theatrical pretence,      Not like a ballet-master in the van       Of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63541]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4437]]></link><description><![CDATA[This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're brought to us and we revitalize them because they've usually been traumatized by all of this. We then are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31095]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're brought to us and we revitalize them because they've usually been traumatized by all of this. We then are involved in bringing this plant material, which is probably rare and endangered, back into circulation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of the meetings is to get community input regarding the management plan for the river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of the meetings is to get community input regarding the management plan for the river.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10433]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60026]]></link><description><![CDATA[An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As merry as the day is long. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55422]]></link><description><![CDATA[As merry as the day is long. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."Latin: "A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."Latin: "A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. - Letters to Lucilius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are none of us infallible -- not even the youngest of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15063]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are none of us infallible -- not even the youngest of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/779]]></link><description><![CDATA[I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're challenging the very best in the segment by offering refined Scandinavian luxury -- in other words, clean and elegant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35187]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're challenging the very best in the segment by offering refined Scandinavian luxury -- in other words, clean and elegant lines combined with intelligent functionality. Every single detail has been designed with a firm focus on the user's well-being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66710]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom  Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23162]]></link><description><![CDATA[O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom  Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue   Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness,    And drinks my spirit up!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors Distress our fair ones--let them read the prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors Distress our fair ones--let them read the prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23315]]></link><description><![CDATA[We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23315</guid></item></channel></rss>