<?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 path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a "pet" notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66891]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His impact on Yale, Yale Hockey, and me personally has been profound. I enthusiastically embrace the challenge of building upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39694]]></link><description><![CDATA[His impact on Yale, Yale Hockey, and me personally has been profound. I enthusiastically embrace the challenge of building upon his legacy while taking the Yale Hockey program to the next level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he comes to Ohio, the economy really gets emphasized. They have incorporated the fact that Ohio is not doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36492]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he comes to Ohio, the economy really gets emphasized. They have incorporated the fact that Ohio is not doing very well into their strategy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52820]]></link><description><![CDATA[He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The odds clearly favor the Bank of Canada raising the overnight rate by a quarter point on May 24 to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The odds clearly favor the Bank of Canada raising the overnight rate by a quarter point on May 24 to 4.25 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29544]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this is the biggest disservice to middle-aged men. A lot of them used to look dignified, and now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this is the biggest disservice to middle-aged men. A lot of them used to look dignified, and now they look like rumpled old men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given Japan's shaky political and financial situation, the market will continue to produce such knee-jerk reactions to stock movements in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given Japan's shaky political and financial situation, the market will continue to produce such knee-jerk reactions to stock movements in the U.S..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26068]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians in general are far too eager to urge special exceptions when they hear these charges [of corruption in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians in general are far too eager to urge special exceptions when they hear these charges [of corruption in the church] preferred; far too ready to make out a case for themselves while they admit their application to others; far too ready to think that the cause of God is interested in the suppression of facts. The prophets should have taught us a different lesson. They should have led us to feel that it was a solemn duty, not to conceal, but to bring forward all the evidence which proves, not that one country is better than another, or one portion of the church better than another, but that there is a principle of decay, a tendency to apostasy in all, and that no comfort can come from merely balancing symptoms of good here against symptoms of evil there, no comfort from considering whether we are a little less contentious, a little less idolatrous than our neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose one could construct Madame Clarkson's very active involvement in these last few days and her coming to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38455]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose one could construct Madame Clarkson's very active involvement in these last few days and her coming to the ceremony as wanting to support the office and the institution in the face of some controversy that's been around Madame Jean, and a desire to be visible in support of her,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8676]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think our motivation is that we're operating on good faith. Our incentive is that we want to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think our motivation is that we're operating on good faith. Our incentive is that we want to be a part of the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more men threatned then stricken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49946]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more men threatned then stricken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wiseman speaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22171]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wiseman speaks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28398]]></link><description><![CDATA[She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is very uncommon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is very uncommon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65590]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The depth of our team this year has been the key, especially with the injuries we've had. We've got the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The depth of our team this year has been the key, especially with the injuries we've had. We've got the numbers and that's been a key to our success. We have a lot of chemistry on this team and a lot of experienced young guys who are waiting for their chances to step up and contribute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are all changing, and Jo is resisting, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41683]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are all changing, and Jo is resisting,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25666]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must loose a flie to catch a trout. [You must lose a fly to catch a trout.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50136]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must loose a flie to catch a trout. [You must lose a fly to catch a trout.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24628]]></link><description><![CDATA[My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. It's the same with the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our necessities are few but our wants are endless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31354]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a transitional name with a lot of support behind its plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38810]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a transitional name with a lot of support behind its plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fascists cannot argue, so they kill ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fascists cannot argue, so they kill]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14006]]></link><description><![CDATA[With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52151]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57672]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FIRE HAS LEFT THE HEARTH Fire has left the hearth Nautilus climbed from shell Perfume flowed from bottle Prisoner gone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18359]]></link><description><![CDATA[FIRE HAS LEFT THE HEARTH Fire has left the hearth Nautilus climbed from shell Perfume flowed from bottle Prisoner gone from cell Butterfly flutterbied cocoon nor hand restrained by glove Jesus away from manger Cage left by Spirit Dove. Sparklings soared away from wand. Chick's egg become the bird. Omkar sung from out the throat Violin's notes now heard. Buddhist temple pine cone tabernacle'd godlet seed Shattered that it might manifest thousand forests of fir tree Eternal snow of mountain top now nurses meadow flowers. Shining never held by sun relentless melts ice towers. Love has left its spring the heart Is now a liquid pond Host stolen from the chalice consumed in mouth of God Starlight abandoned star a billion years ago Left that tonight you might have its sight and know Know Love is forever no drop of God ever dies Lover not bound by form of love God's bodies are not God's souls (to his wife and children on the death of Robert S) (Baba Hari Das: is the author of love is more powerful than lover for love is not bound by form).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5095]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66708]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeksslaves and claims obedience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44723]]></link><description><![CDATA[God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeksslaves and claims obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44723</guid></item></channel></rss>