<?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[There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56953]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many bodies in front of the net. There took a little bit more liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32954]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many bodies in front of the net. There took a little bit more liberties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil of beak and added claw,   The meagre food that scarce thy want allays!    And this--to gratify the gloating gaze     Of fools, who value Nature not a straw,      But know to prize the infraction of her law       An hard perversion of her creatures' ways!        Thee the wild woods await, in leaves attired,         Where notes of liquid utterance should engage          Thy bill, that now with pain scant forage earns.   - Julian C.H. Fane,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54495]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Massachusetts has been the wheel within New England, and Boston the wheel within Massachusetts. Boston therefore is often called the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Massachusetts has been the wheel within New England, and Boston the wheel within Massachusetts. Boston therefore is often called the "hub of the world," since it has been the source and fountain of the ideas that have reared and made America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I see is a system that's being implemented and every week it appears that players understand it a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29868]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I see is a system that's being implemented and every week it appears that players understand it a little more and they play a little faster,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  A certain group of scholars, mostly German or influenced by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  A certain group of scholars, mostly German or influenced by German protestant theology, has rushed to abandon positions before they were attacked, and to demythologize the Gospel message when there was no clear evidence that intelligent minds outside the Church were any more frightened by her mystery than by her morals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content to follow when we lead the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content to follow when we lead the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35319]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11620]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice does not descend from its pinnacle. [It., Cima di giudizio non s'avvalla.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice does not descend from its pinnacle. [It., Cima di giudizio non s'avvalla.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of babies to be in bliss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3600]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really hasn't settled in yet that it's almost over. It seems like yesterday that we just got here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37109]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really hasn't settled in yet that it's almost over. It seems like yesterday that we just got here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will for the deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will for the deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44711]]></link><description><![CDATA[The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The peace makers shall be called the children of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26879]]></link><description><![CDATA[The peace makers shall be called the children of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wake up every morning and thank God I’m not a chartered accountant any longer, but involved with property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wake up every morning and thank God I’m not a chartered accountant any longer, but involved with property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The environmental concerns for the entire project have been met up front. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The environmental concerns for the entire project have been met up front.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For blocks are better cleft with wedges, Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges,  And dullest nonsense has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44607]]></link><description><![CDATA[For blocks are better cleft with wedges, Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges,  And dullest nonsense has been found   By some to be the most profound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bhutan - having looked at its neighbor, Nepal, which is overpopulated, has ruined its environment and is very unstable politically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bhutan - having looked at its neighbor, Nepal, which is overpopulated, has ruined its environment and is very unstable politically - knows what it wants: not to become another Nepal,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men have more consideration for themselves than for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51733]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men have more consideration for themselves than for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60156]]></link><description><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' butthat we become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' butthat we become whom we eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[House prices are likely to remain relatively flat for an extended period, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36611]]></link><description><![CDATA[House prices are likely to remain relatively flat for an extended period,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  As the devil showed great skill in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  As the devil showed great skill in tempting men to perdition., equal skill ought to be shown in saving them. The devil studied the nature of each man, seized upon the traits of his soul, adjusted himself to them and insinuated himself gradually into his victims's confidence -- suggesting splendors to the ambitious, gain to the covetous, delight to the sensuous, and a false appearance of piety to the pious -- and a winner of souls ought to act in the same cautious and skillful way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All's fair in love and war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61137]]></link><description><![CDATA[All's fair in love and war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27724]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - The Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64191]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is anything you did and fear others to know about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is anything you did and fear others to know about]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the question, and the country be left to honest European guidance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the question, and the country be left to honest European guidance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Romero was an ex-Marine, and Brandon loved to listen to his stories about being a Marine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Romero was an ex-Marine, and Brandon loved to listen to his stories about being a Marine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ankle was going toward the left and my foot was going toward the right. I was shaking, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39303]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ankle was going toward the left and my foot was going toward the right. I was shaking, and they kept covering my eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intelligent person understands others, a brilliant person understands himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62839]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intelligent person understands others, a brilliant person understands himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in;  But to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62203]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in;  But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own;   'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sky full of silent suns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56519]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sky full of silent suns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12585]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12585</guid></item></channel></rss>