<?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[Four of them went to the hyperbaric chamber at Shock Trauma, they were experiencing more severe symptoms and had been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four of them went to the hyperbaric chamber at Shock Trauma, they were experiencing more severe symptoms and had been for several days, severe flu-like symptoms. There were another four taken to St. Agnes Hospital for observation, they were experiencing more minor symptoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christina never called me names, which was very sweet. She said I was the only person there to support her, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christina never called me names, which was very sweet. She said I was the only person there to support her, so she didn't want to alienate me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends, wear a scowl and have wrinkles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear a smile and have friends, wear a scowl and have wrinkles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44107]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very unfair, in my opinion. It's also something we can't control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very unfair, in my opinion. It's also something we can't control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60836]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither head, nor feet. [Referring to anything very intricate.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither head, nor feet. [Referring to anything very intricate.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are confident of advancing, but in this period of the season the physical condition is fading and surprise results ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30999]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confident of advancing, but in this period of the season the physical condition is fading and surprise results can't be excluded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9500]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46413]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll do a couple more [eight-round fights] first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36392]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll do a couple more [eight-round fights] first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61703]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn:  But lofty souls, who look beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn:  But lofty souls, who look beyond the tomb,   Can smile at Fate, and wonder how they mourn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55487]]></link><description><![CDATA[This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28070]]></link><description><![CDATA[In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of that stuff about James Bond, that's Hollywood. You don't want anyone standing out in the intelligence business. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30314]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of that stuff about James Bond, that's Hollywood. You don't want anyone standing out in the intelligence business. You want someone nondescript. The ideal spy is 5-foot-6 and kind of dumpy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've told it so many times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've told it so many times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9836]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers.  It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66120]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers.  It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage.  Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some mature birds that have short beards from a lack of melanin that makes the beard weak and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37110]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some mature birds that have short beards from a lack of melanin that makes the beard weak and it will break. The best method is to wait and see the bird in full strut. If his fan (tail feathers) form an even-edged circle, then he's mature. If there are shorter feathers on the edges of the fan with taller feathers in the middle, then it's a jake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emptie vessels sound most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Emptie vessels sound most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While it is right to stress the dangers of the permissive society, the argument from danger is not in itself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7562]]></link><description><![CDATA[While it is right to stress the dangers of the permissive society, the argument from danger is not in itself a good argument, because it seems to imply that, if the danger could be removed, if there was no risk of a child and no peril of infection, then the objection would be removed, too. It tends to imply that the objection is to the attendant dangers and not to the thing itself. But if sexual intercourse before and outside marriage is against the teaching of Jesus, then the thing is not only dangerous, it is wrong in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17860]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cry every chance I get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27832]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cry every chance I get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39485]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3256]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The outlook continues to look good, especially growth in emerging markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31963]]></link><description><![CDATA[The outlook continues to look good, especially growth in emerging markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've found that the more open officials are, the more their constituents feel a part of the process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34475]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've found that the more open officials are, the more their constituents feel a part of the process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9749]]></link><description><![CDATA[A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking about education]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so—one other point ofreality—to make something real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21836]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so—one other point ofreality—to make something real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24312]]></link><description><![CDATA[No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't need to have the pitchers ranked 1-2-3. We're going to go out there, and the guy who has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28443]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't need to have the pitchers ranked 1-2-3. We're going to go out there, and the guy who has the fresh arm is going to throw. It's good to have that much depth on the pitching staff, because we can use guys in certain situations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58354]]></link><description><![CDATA[The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: Twins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59938]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: Twins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59938</guid></item></channel></rss>