<?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[The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any additional rate increases would need to be precipitated by higher inflation or above-trend growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any additional rate increases would need to be precipitated by higher inflation or above-trend growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and shewould come in and sink my boats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and shewould come in and sink my boats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just about every apartment complex in the north part of town is being converted. The price is so much better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just about every apartment complex in the north part of town is being converted. The price is so much better than a single-family residence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little given seasonably excuses a great gift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49046]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't listen to people who tell you what to do! Listen to people who encourage you to do what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't listen to people who tell you what to do! Listen to people who encourage you to do what you know is right! Because you have one life to live so live it your way!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52479]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to go into my view at the moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to go into my view at the moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Dune, "Litany Against Fear", 1965.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Al-Ki [Indian word meaning "by and by"] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Al-Ki [Indian word meaning "by and by"]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My security team monitors just about everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34180]]></link><description><![CDATA[My security team monitors just about everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, "Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to get him in the NFL Hall now and that's going to be tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33896]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to get him in the NFL Hall now and that's going to be tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mistake is a Buddhist gift.Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/215]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mistake is a Buddhist gift.Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the entire region is affected, how can we say how many birds are hit? We are taking no chances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29305]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the entire region is affected, how can we say how many birds are hit? We are taking no chances and we will cull all the birds in all the farms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like to think our fees and services, the charges we apply, are competitive. ... For things that we don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33759]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like to think our fees and services, the charges we apply, are competitive. ... For things that we don't control, the charges the tugs charge to provide assistance is competitive to other ports. The same holds true for our pilots, the guys who physically guide the ship in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3533]]></link><description><![CDATA[An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes conflict is necessary in the short term to achieve peace through the threat of aggression, and sometimes it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes conflict is necessary in the short term to achieve peace through the threat of aggression, and sometimes it is the threat of conflict which can establish peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are different kinds of love, but they all have the same aim: possession ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47774]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are different kinds of love, but they all have the same aim: possession]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole discord of this world consists in discords. [Lat., Tota hujus mundi concordia ex discordibus constat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9972]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole discord of this world consists in discords. [Lat., Tota hujus mundi concordia ex discordibus constat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My personal feeling is weÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢re not going to see the price of oil and the price at the pump go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31139]]></link><description><![CDATA[My personal feeling is weÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢re not going to see the price of oil and the price at the pump go down for a long time, ... I just donÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t think itÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s sound public policy in the times we live in now. IÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢d rather have a bank account so if something hits us and hits us hard, we have got a fund.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating him. He accused him of being a nuisance to men by crowing in the nighttime and not permitting them to sleep. The Cock defended himself by saying that he did this for the benefit of men, that they might rise in time for their labors. The Cat replied, Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain supperless; and he made a meal of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man is the smith of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man is the smith of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You start to put them all together and ... add up what we already are spending, you're going to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30391]]></link><description><![CDATA[You start to put them all together and ... add up what we already are spending, you're going to find it's fairly significant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4253]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18397]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44066]]></link><description><![CDATA[By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has a family member or knows somebody who's been locked up, who's been murdered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has a family member or knows somebody who's been locked up, who's been murdered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse,  Right reason for their law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse,  Right reason for their law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have asked for his release. But no release has been granted at this point. Right now, he is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36075]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have asked for his release. But no release has been granted at this point. Right now, he is not released from his commitment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  Faith knows nothing of external guarantees -- that is, of course, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  Faith knows nothing of external guarantees -- that is, of course, faith as an original experience of the life of the Spirit. It is only in the secondary esoteric sphere of the religious life that we find guarantees and a general attempt to compel faith. To demand guarantees and proofs of faith is to fail to understand its very nature by denying the free, heroic act which it inspires. In really authentic and original religious experience, to the existence of which the history of the human spirit bears abundant witness, faith springs up without the aid of guarantees and compelling proofs, without any external coercion or the use of authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5094]]></link><description><![CDATA[The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5094</guid></item></channel></rss>