<?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[It was a bad day. Horrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bad day. Horrible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are not in business to be popular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1284]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are not in business to be popular.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15608]]></link><description><![CDATA[An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have every intention of relaunching cruise service from the great city of New Orleans as soon as the infrastructure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42718]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have every intention of relaunching cruise service from the great city of New Orleans as soon as the infrastructure is in place so that our ships may contribute to the economic recovery of the area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that second game, we went in too overconfident. They went on a run and beat us by four points. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41982]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that second game, we went in too overconfident. They went on a run and beat us by four points.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no facts, only interpretations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14879]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no facts, only interpretations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47764]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be said of them [the Hollanders], as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets upon their Dominions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest man in history was the poorest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47885]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest man in history was the poorest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26495]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20908]]></link><description><![CDATA[He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18813]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60293]]></link><description><![CDATA[On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. Of this he wrote to James Madison: As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou unassuming Commonplace Of Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou unassuming Commonplace Of Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy is tragedy - plus time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy is tragedy - plus time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is safety in numbers. [Lat., Defendit numerus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44707]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is safety in numbers. [Lat., Defendit numerus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River;  We listened to the landler-tune,   We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River;  We listened to the landler-tune,   We watched the moonbeams quiver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9588]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9517]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The claim that Religious believers have a happier outlook on life than Religious skeptics is like saying a drunken man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The claim that Religious believers have a happier outlook on life than Religious skeptics is like saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man. We should all value intellectual sobriety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health,  The fit is strongest. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health,  The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave,   On their departure most of all show evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given, not lent, And not withdrawn, once sent, This Infant of mankind, this One, Is still the little welcome Son. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given, not lent, And not withdrawn, once sent, This Infant of mankind, this One, Is still the little welcome Son. New every year, New-born and newly dear, He comes with tidings and a song, The ages long, the ages long. Even as the cold  Keen winter grows not old, As childhood is so fresh, forseen, And spring in the familiar green. Sudden as sweet Come the expected feet. All joy is young, and new all art, And He, too, whom we have by heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rolling stone gathers no moss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rolling stone gathers no moss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge; For, on their answer, will we set on them,  And God befriend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge; For, on their answer, will we set on them,  And God befriend us as our cause is just!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[But after an immediate uproar here, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry began backpedaling.] There is no accord yet, only an idea, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31253]]></link><description><![CDATA[[But after an immediate uproar here, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry began backpedaling.] There is no accord yet, only an idea, ... This is a theme that needs to be examined when we receive a concrete proposal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240  As a man increases in moral strength of character, so his conscience becomes more sensitive; he realizes more keenly the distance that separates him from the ideal, and hence the weight of the feeling of guiltiness oppresses him ever more heavily. Growth in goodness does not, therefore, necessarily imply increased happiness, on the contrary, it may mean greater unhappiness. And his unhappiness increasing in proportion to the elevation of his ethical standards, a man's end is either Buddha or suicide if he knows no God; while if he knows God, it is despair or that conversion which, having sobbed away its tears on the Father's breast, thence derives ever new strength to fight the battle of life, sure of the final victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66389]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;  Man marks the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;  Man marks the earth with ruin--his control   Stops with the shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my w0rk and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34970]]></link><description><![CDATA[I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my w0rk and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was supposed to be Urban Growth Management fees, but all it did was fuel sprawl, ... It didn't control ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28715]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was supposed to be Urban Growth Management fees, but all it did was fuel sprawl, ... It didn't control anything because it was uncontrolled at City Hall. It was a mess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven  To bleed for man, to teach him how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6138]]></link><description><![CDATA[But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven  To bleed for man, to teach him how to live,   And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every breath is a second chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every breath is a second chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17861]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no original truth, only original error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53390]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no original truth, only original error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[T]reat Nature by the sphere, the cylinder and the cone. . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43797]]></link><description><![CDATA[[T]reat Nature by the sphere, the cylinder and the cone. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43797</guid></item></channel></rss>