<?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[[Cleaner air] has been a pretty clear directive from our elected leaders and our customers. We know that our car-crazed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37326]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Cleaner air] has been a pretty clear directive from our elected leaders and our customers. We know that our car-crazed culture contributes to [air pollution] in a big way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21127]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5170]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a weakening trend showing up in the numbers since June. It does appear over the last few months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29642]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a weakening trend showing up in the numbers since June. It does appear over the last few months that we're hitting a soft patch of our own. I'm sure that's discouraging to those looking for a job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's unbelievable. We're just in shock, as much shock as we were in with Gary Walberg. No one expected this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30280]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's unbelievable. We're just in shock, as much shock as we were in with Gary Walberg. No one expected this to happen. It's just nine months after Gary's passing. (Loudon) had big plans for the department, shared his vision with us. It's been a while since we had a full complement of officers. It's unfortunate. He was a real nice guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf. [Lat., Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf. [Lat., Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia retroversus crescit tanquam coda vituli.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15708]]></link><description><![CDATA[To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14184]]></link><description><![CDATA[An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is ample precedent for the Security Council to take up the human rights and political situation in a country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30402]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is ample precedent for the Security Council to take up the human rights and political situation in a country with as horrific a record as Burma, especially when suffering spills across borders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too early to determine if alcohol or drugs were a contributing factor, or if the driver of the van ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31870]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too early to determine if alcohol or drugs were a contributing factor, or if the driver of the van may have fallen asleep,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming off a tough win against Minuteman, it's good to get a win against Swampscott over here. We just did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming off a tough win against Minuteman, it's good to get a win against Swampscott over here. We just did what we do best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5129]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe the final decision was pretty clear. At a time when the state is developing community-based treatment and support ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39766]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe the final decision was pretty clear. At a time when the state is developing community-based treatment and support programs for children ... a large adolescent psychiatric hospital doesn't represent the best way to meet the individual needs of adolescents in our region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is religion to be thus forsworn, For charity itself fulfills the law  And who can never love from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5709]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is religion to be thus forsworn, For charity itself fulfills the law  And who can never love from charity?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21449]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of different tastes have different pursuits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of different tastes have different pursuits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been quite hectic. Through the generosity of local businesses, namely Wal-Mart, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Plum Creek Cleaners, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been quite hectic. Through the generosity of local businesses, namely Wal-Mart, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Plum Creek Cleaners, as well as school children from District 22, and a host of Dawson County residents and others in surrounding counties, we were able to help the families furnish their living quarters and obtain food and clothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires somuch attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22361]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires somuch attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very important for us as a team to have this long week of games on the road because when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30489]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very important for us as a team to have this long week of games on the road because when the tournament comes, this will be great preparation for it. We need to learn how to play injured and tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64874]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922   A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922   A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself. The world worships the original. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself. The world worships the original.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932  Do we habitually remember how it offends our Lord to see divisions in the Christian Church, nations nominally Christian armed to the teeth against one another, class against class and individual against individual in fierce and relentless competition, jealousies among clergy and church-workers, communicants who forget that the sacrament of union with Christ is the sacrament of union with their fellow men? Christians are to be the makers of Christ's peace. Something we can all do is to reconcile individuals, families, classes, churches, nations. The question is, Are we, as churchmen and citizens, by work and by prayer, in our private conduct and our public action, doing our utmost with deliberate, unsparing effort! If so, our benediction is of the highest: it is to be, and to be acknowledged as being, sons of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man,  Commands all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man,  Commands all light, all influence, all fate,   Nothing to him falls early or too late.    Our acts, our angles are, or good or ill,     Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselvesagainst the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21945]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselvesagainst the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far we have no reason to complain nor to suspect any unfair or inappropriate policy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35207]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far we have no reason to complain nor to suspect any unfair or inappropriate policy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53689]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/657]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61694]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11701]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time you hear a mouse trap snap, and Angel gets set on fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16391]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should always be in love. This is the reason why one should never marry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25903]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should always be in love. This is the reason why one should never marry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9554]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12830]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12830</guid></item></channel></rss>