<?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[A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26435]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food for powder, food for powder; they 'll fill a pit as well as better. -King Henry IV. Part I. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food for powder, food for powder; they 'll fill a pit as well as better. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21569]]></link><description><![CDATA[From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are there for only a second but you got to see it, just like a shooting star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are there for only a second but you got to see it, just like a shooting star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apparently there was some bad blood between the two because of an incident which took place three to four years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apparently there was some bad blood between the two because of an incident which took place three to four years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22966]]></link><description><![CDATA[INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11798]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Only he who flings himself upward when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Only he who flings himself upward when the pull comes to drag him down, can hope to break the force of temptation. Temptation may be an invitation to hell, but much more is it an opportunity to reach heaven. At the moment of temptation, sin and righteousness are both very near the Christian; but, of the two, the latter is the nearer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there everymorning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22331]]></link><description><![CDATA[People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there everymorning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gilbert West and his friend, Lord Lyttleton, both men of acknowledged talents, had imbibed the principles of infidelity from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gilbert West and his friend, Lord Lyttleton, both men of acknowledged talents, had imbibed the principles of infidelity from a superficial view of the Scriptures. Fully persuaded that the Bible was an imposture, they were determined to expose [it]. Mr. West chose the Resurrection of Christ, and Lord Lyttleton the conversion of St Paul, for the subject of hostile criticism. Both sat down to their respective tasks full of prejudice and a contempt for Christianity. The results of their separate endeavours was that they were both converted by their attempts to overthrow the truth of Christianity! They came together, not as they had expected, to exult over an imposture exposed to ridicule, but to lament their folly and congratulate each other on their joint conviction, that the Bible was the word of God. Their able enquiries have furnished two most valuable treatises in favour of revelation -- one, entitled "Observations on the Conversion of St Paul", and the other, "Observations on the Resurrection of Christ.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10908]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23227]]></link><description><![CDATA[No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are one or two matters I wish to take up with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38437]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are one or two matters I wish to take up with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20196]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weakest goeth to the wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weakest goeth to the wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.  [Ger., Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergiebt,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.  [Ger., Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergiebt,   Ach! der ist bald allein.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is looking at liabilities in the nature of $400 million. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35926]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is looking at liabilities in the nature of $400 million.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man's idea of a good sermon is one that goes over his head - and hits one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man's idea of a good sermon is one that goes over his head - and hits one of his neighbors]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15852]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength, before going out to face the world again. "The thoughtful soul to solitude retires," said the poet of other and quieter times; but where is the solitude to which we can retire today? "Commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still," is a wise and healing counsel; but how can it be followed in this day of the newspaper, the telephone, the radio and television? These modern playthings, like pet tiger cubs, have grown so large and dangerous that they threaten to devour us all. What was intended to be a blessing has become a positive curse. No spot is now safe from the world's intrusion. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today. What the world will do about it is their problem. Apparently the masses want it the way it is, and the majority of Christians are so completely conformed to this present age that they, too, want things the way they are. They may be annoyed a bit by the clamor and by the goldfish-bowl existence they live, but apparently they are not annoyed enough to do anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in herath side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8696]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51617]]></link><description><![CDATA[It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school. I get a lot of people who have their publicist call my agent to ask, 'Is she dating anyone?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,  That walks at dead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,  That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand   O'er some new-open'd grave; and, (strange to tell!)    Evanishes at crowing of the cock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[it is much safer to obey than to rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24483]]></link><description><![CDATA[it is much safer to obey than to rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57328</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 take no note of time But from its loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51867]]></link><description><![CDATA[We take no note of time But from its loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15896]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13224]]></link><description><![CDATA[O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, motionless and dark, eluded search Self-shrouded: and anon, starring the sky,  Rose like a shower of fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, motionless and dark, eluded search Self-shrouded: and anon, starring the sky,  Rose like a shower of fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our play wasn't acceptable. We were a big part of the reason Bones was getting hit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our play wasn't acceptable. We were a big part of the reason Bones was getting hit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43713]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43713</guid></item></channel></rss>