<?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 stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura of scientific processes and results is often appropriated by other intellectuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first hundred years are the hardest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first hundred years are the hardest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22404]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25256]]></link><description><![CDATA[All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14139]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need to have the ability to take care of themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39850]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need to have the ability to take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman   War is too serious a matter to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61166]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman   War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart is something you can't teach. This isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport, and this one says we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heart is something you can't teach. This isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport, and this one says we work hard and we deserve a lot more respect than we're getting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will effectively be a godsend for small business owners particularly our constituents. They have repeatedly pleaded, prayed and demanded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36320]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will effectively be a godsend for small business owners particularly our constituents. They have repeatedly pleaded, prayed and demanded a product that is affordable and answers the need for healthcare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith provides ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5451]]></link><description><![CDATA[In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith provides]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As ill-luck would have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26008]]></link><description><![CDATA[As ill-luck would have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work thou for pleasure--paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve--  Who works for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work thou for pleasure--paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve--  Who works for glory misses oft the goal;   Who works for money coins his very soul.    Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be     That these things shall be added unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41507]]></link><description><![CDATA[My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53605]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50373]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God, and when they serve to unite us with Him eternally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He believes he's going to be ready for the start of the season. That's what we're counting on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29877]]></link><description><![CDATA[He believes he's going to be ready for the start of the season. That's what we're counting on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44045]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people revolt in a totalitarian society, they rise not against the wickedness of the regime but its weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47604]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people revolt in a totalitarian society, they rise not against the wickedness of the regime but its weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of members resigned from the club, and we were concerned the club wouldn't keep going. We bought their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of members resigned from the club, and we were concerned the club wouldn't keep going. We bought their stock to keep it going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57558]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4496]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights,  Howe'er his own commence, can never be   But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights,  Howe'er his own commence, can never be   But an usurper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will... Once I would make much ado, if I saw not the world carved and set in order to my liking; now I am silent, when I see God... is fattening and feeding the children of perdition. I pray God, I may never find my will again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let there be spaces in your togetherness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let there be spaces in your togetherness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an evil power, a Satanic power, which holds souls in error, and which persists. It is interesting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6369]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an evil power, a Satanic power, which holds souls in error, and which persists. It is interesting to note that in the first centuries of the Christian era many demoniacal phenomena appeared in countries in the course of being converted from idolatry to Christianity. The same is true of pagan civilisation today. In my research into the fourth century, I was surprised to find a great recrudescence of magical practices at the very moment when Roman civilization under Constantine was about to be snatched away bodily from paganism and enter... into the kingdom of the Son; at that time, all the rites of sorcery took on an incredible virulence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Popular Applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2921]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Popular Applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closest to being in control we will ever be is in that moment that we realize we're not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closest to being in control we will ever be is in that moment that we realize we're not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[but it is only a small snapshot of what is going on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39734]]></link><description><![CDATA[but it is only a small snapshot of what is going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle people have the least leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle people have the least leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They try to have three pitchers and I have no doubt she'll be there. Pitching is tough and she's done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34154]]></link><description><![CDATA[They try to have three pitchers and I have no doubt she'll be there. Pitching is tough and she's done it at this level. At the next level, they know she'll get better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. [Lat., Ille sinistrorsum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14160]]></link><description><![CDATA[One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions. [Lat., Ille sinistrorsum hic dexrorsum abit, unus utrique  Error, sed variis illudit partibus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109  O Lord our God, grant us grace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109  O Lord our God, grant us grace to desire Thee with our whole heart; that, so desiring,we may seek, and seeking find Thee; and so finding Thee may love Thee; and loving Thee, may hate those sins from which Thou hast redeemed us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jests that give pains are no jests ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jests that give pains are no jests]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we must not. You will learn about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19494</guid></item></channel></rss>