<?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[Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61065]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good for younger people to see how things were done before modern conveniences when you sat in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35662]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good for younger people to see how things were done before modern conveniences when you sat in the tractor exposed to the cold, heat and rain. These tractors were before air conditioning, heat and stereos. This also gives the older people an opportunity to relive memories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35905]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say enough on that subject. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say enough on that subject.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's this huge number of desperate people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40881]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's this huge number of desperate people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  Logic may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  Logic may be viewed, perhaps, as a machine which is designed, at best, to be such that when we feed into it certain data and turn the logic crank, we inevitably get certain conclusions out the other end. Logic is designed to give inevitably true results starting from known true -- or assumed-to-be-true -- premises. Logic is a wonderful tool when we want only logical conclusions. We should not reject such a machine merely because it is not equipped to handle all of reality. The scientist who commits himself to use a logic machine is doing wisely, qua scientist, for use on data of science. But if he feeds into that machine convictions that there is not God, or ignores God because He is not in his corpus of data, and then draws from his logic the conclusion that God does not exist, his conclusion is irrelevant. Logic is a tool; it should not be made into a religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55508]]></link><description><![CDATA[But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20740]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomization, statistical significance, and standard deviations is less than illiterate; he is preconscious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44092]]></link><description><![CDATA[All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19805]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste,  And in a cruel wantonness of power, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste,  And in a cruel wantonness of power,   Thinn'd states of half their people, and gave up    To want the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5823]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are nothing but machines for producing children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are nothing but machines for producing children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of ourcontrols. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of ourcontrols.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63328]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm looking forward to meeting him next week at training camp. It'll be an honor to work with a guy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32225]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm looking forward to meeting him next week at training camp. It'll be an honor to work with a guy who just won a Stanley Cup [in 2004 with Tampa Bay].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we need is continued engagement from the United States, first of all, in the war against terror, which will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28276]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we need is continued engagement from the United States, first of all, in the war against terror, which will help stability in Afghanistan and the whole region ... and also in the reconstruction efforts of our people,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where more is meant than meets the ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where more is meant than meets the ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49903]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21672]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just try explaining the value of statistical summaries to the widow of the man who drowned crossing a stream with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just try explaining the value of statistical summaries to the widow of the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of four feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6184]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes into a mere "winning" of them to this or that mutually exclusive version of the "Truth", very often descends to a use of people for more-or-less irrelevant ends (already an evil), and can then so easily degenerate into a total misuse of people for alleged evangelical "results" with the consequent loss of all respect for people and their souls, and the withering of the original concern and love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, and misfortunes of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no problem having money in the bank. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no problem having money in the bank.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16790]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will fight them in the air, land and sea, and their aggression will achieve nothing but failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will fight them in the air, land and sea, and their aggression will achieve nothing but failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40819]]></link><description><![CDATA["I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17536]]></link><description><![CDATA[True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have this agreement, everybody is going to gain, including Poland. And if we don't have this agreement, everybody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41587]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have this agreement, everybody is going to gain, including Poland. And if we don't have this agreement, everybody will lose including Poland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breaking a glass in the Northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breaking a glass in the Northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms,--never! never! never!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man often preaches his beliefs precisely when he has lost them and is looking everywhere for them, and, on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53505]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man often preaches his beliefs precisely when he has lost them and is looking everywhere for them, and, on such occasions, his preaching is by no means at its worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   Life provides all kinds of astonishingly effective anodynes and narcotics, all of which are nothing but misused gifts of God. But there in hell--that is, beyond a fixed boundary set by God--all the securities and safeguards disappear into thin air. What here is only a tiny flame of secret self-reproach that flickers up occasionally and is quickly smothered, there becomes a scorching fire. What here is no more than a slight ticking sound in our conscience suddenly becomes the trumpet tone of judgment which can no longer be ignored. Lazarus is permitted to see what he believed, but the rich man is compelled to see what he did not believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most curious offspring of shame is shyness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28126]]></link><description><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no wisdom like frankness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5212]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no wisdom like frankness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody takes steps in the wrong direction. Everybody has the opportunity to take steps in the right direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody takes steps in the wrong direction. Everybody has the opportunity to take steps in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wages, benefits and pensions are not going to be as lucrative. We know that. But what they've put on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wages, benefits and pensions are not going to be as lucrative. We know that. But what they've put on the table is not acceptable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35596</guid></item></channel></rss>