<?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[Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't see any signs of anything being wrong. He was as gracious as ever in his closing comments to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31419]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't see any signs of anything being wrong. He was as gracious as ever in his closing comments to the crowd, and his speech was fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dare to be wrong and to dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dare to be wrong and to dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20503]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Potential customers have more faith and confidence in the financial health of IBM. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Potential customers have more faith and confidence in the financial health of IBM.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65014]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver…and since he is so busy, you'd probably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver…and since he is so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's smart. But it's like a learning disability. If you're talking to him straight on, you either have to repeat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33591]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's smart. But it's like a learning disability. If you're talking to him straight on, you either have to repeat it so he can catch on to it or he'll catch it the first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45180]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal brickbat, by innuendo, and by light-fingered intellectual dexterity, is a mordant reminder of the time when controversies were settled by faggot and sword. The truth is hardly less the loser because the inquisitor has altered his methods. All of us who seek to explore the wide reaches of God's revelation, and strive to bring the thinking of others under the domination of Christ, do well to seek first to bring our own rhetorical techniques under that same dominion -- under the discipline, that is, of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. [Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. [Lat., Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the big hurdles to overcome is kids attitude toward science. Some kids think science is boring or they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33877]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the big hurdles to overcome is kids attitude toward science. Some kids think science is boring or they say I just don't understand it. You work around that by making it interesting and fun and relevant for kids.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3421]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19474]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9412]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything can happen. It's very unstable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything can happen. It's very unstable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immediate access to Kosovo, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41092]]></link><description><![CDATA[We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immediate access to Kosovo,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. [Fr., Les rivieres ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54329]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making hay,  And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill,   While mother from the kitchen door is calling with a will,    "Polly!--Polly!--The cows are in the corn!     Oh, where's Polly?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of the greatest number. [Lat., La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of the greatest number. [Lat., La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce  Lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23502]]></link><description><![CDATA[So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce  Lie still without a fee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is organised knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is organised knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't… you know, it's interesting. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44448]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't… you know, it's interesting. I think we don't make things up. We just distill it to, hopefully, its most humorous nugget. And in that sense it seems faked and skewed just because we don't have to be subjective or pretend to be objective. We can just put it out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government is us; we are the government, you and I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government is us; we are the government, you and I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13524]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,--  Let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain,--  Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,   Sermons and soda-water the day after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common. [Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]   - Voltaire (Francois Marie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common. [Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our target is to find an academy player and bring him through to the first team in two years' time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our target is to find an academy player and bring him through to the first team in two years' time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light burthens, long borne, growe heavie. [Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light burthens, long borne, growe heavie. [Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I would give the same answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17519]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I would give the same answer that most people would: nuclear war, global warming and Windows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32123]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am proud to announce that we have started enriching uranium to the 3.5 percent level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35727]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am proud to announce that we have started enriching uranium to the 3.5 percent level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8888]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41253]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44609]]></link><description><![CDATA[To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48630]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48630</guid></item></channel></rss>