<?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 is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24228]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to posterity. [Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu visit? Vixit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to posterity. [Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu visit? Vixit ad posteros.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is force, legalized plunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is force, legalized plunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of large trunks filled with Enron documents were sent [to] Andersen's main Houston office to be shredded,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52808]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4818]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. [Lat., Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repeated exposure increases the likelihood of aggressive behavior over time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repeated exposure increases the likelihood of aggressive behavior over time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a faction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32661]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43993]]></link><description><![CDATA[For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a team trying to find ourselves right now. We just ran into a good basketball team with a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39957]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a team trying to find ourselves right now. We just ran into a good basketball team with a good shooter tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is not poor who has a competency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50244]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is not poor who has a competency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34952]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13089]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All theological language is necessarily analogical, but it was singularly unfortunate that the Church, in speaking of punishment for sin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8118]]></link><description><![CDATA[All theological language is necessarily analogical, but it was singularly unfortunate that the Church, in speaking of punishment for sin, should have chosen the analogy of criminal law, for the analogy is incompatible with the Christian belief in God as the creator of Man. Criminal laws are laws, imposed on men, who are already in existence, with or without their consent, and, with the possible exception of capital punishment for murder, there is no logical relation between the nature of a crime and the penalty inflicted for committing it. If God created man, then the laws of man's spiritual nature must, like the laws of his physical nature, be laws -- laws, that is to say, which he is free to defy but no more free to break than he can break the law of gravity by jumping out of the window, or the laws of biochemistry by getting drunk -- and the consequences of defying them must be as inevitable and as intrinsically related to their nature as a broken leg or a hangover. To state spiritual laws in the imperative -- Thou shalt love God with all thy being, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself -- is simply a pedagogical technique, as when a mother says to her small son, "Stay away from the window!" because the child does not yet know what will happen if he falls out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31806]]></link><description><![CDATA[They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20268]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're asking someone from the lacrosse team to step forward. We will be relentless in finding out who committed this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32924]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're asking someone from the lacrosse team to step forward. We will be relentless in finding out who committed this crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave;  Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave;  Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.   Love tends life a little grace,    A few sad smiles; and then,     Both are laid in one cold place,      In the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56812]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9863]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time Bomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time Bomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We triage the community as we go through -- situations that we can respond to, situations we need to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31557]]></link><description><![CDATA[We triage the community as we go through -- situations that we can respond to, situations we need to let go,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17328]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5774]]></link><description><![CDATA[All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole musical landscape is being organized through the choreography. It was as if the dancers themselves became my score. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole musical landscape is being organized through the choreography. It was as if the dancers themselves became my score.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4262]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's sometimes a difficult thing for family members to understand. The process can be vastly different, depending on the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29341]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's sometimes a difficult thing for family members to understand. The process can be vastly different, depending on the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've forced the other team to hit to beat us. We've forced them to put the ball in play and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36127]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've forced the other team to hit to beat us. We've forced them to put the ball in play and we've made the plays behind them -- and that's something we didn't do last year. We didn't play good defense behind our pitching and we walked too many guys and we've cleaned up those areas. It's really been a difference for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29853]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63367]]></link><description><![CDATA[If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45372]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45372</guid></item></channel></rss>