<?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[To illustrate the difference between the innovator and the dull crowd of routinists who cannot even imagine that any improvement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52022]]></link><description><![CDATA[To illustrate the difference between the innovator and the dull crowd of routinists who cannot even imagine that any improvement is possible, we need only refer to a passage in Engel's most famous book. Here, in 1878, Engels apodictically announced that military weapons are "now so perfected that no further progress of any revolutionizing influence is any longer possible." Henceforth "all further [technological] progress is by and large indifferent for land warfare. The age of evolution is in this regard essentially closed." This complacent conclusion shows in what the achievement of the innovator consists: he accomplishes what other people believe to be unthinkable and unfeasible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43247]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think being funny is not anyone's first choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55120]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call  To train ten thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56718]]></link><description><![CDATA[If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call  To train ten thousand English to their side,   Or as a little snow, tumbled about,    Anon becomes a mountain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time. Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave. He has seen the creation of the world. It has his mark on it. He has its mark on him. Both marks are, for better or for worse, indelible. All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if they're smart. Assuming the Old Man doesn't run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if he's smart he won't put up too much of a fuss. A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe that's why he keeps his distance from the start. He must survive too. Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but it's the risk he must take if they're ever to find their way at all. In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children. Lost fathers have to fend for themselves. Even as the father lays down the law, he knows that someday his children will break it as they need to break it if ever they're to find something better than law to replace it. Until and unless that happens, there's no telling the scrapes they will get into trying to lose him and find themselves. Terrible blnders will be made-dissapointments and failures, hurts and losses of every kind. And they'll keep making them even after they've found themselves too, of course, because growing up is a process that goes on and on. And every hard knock they ever get, knocks the father even harder still, if that's possible, and if and when they finally come through more or less in one piece at the end, there's maybe no rejoicing greater than his in all creation. -Fatherhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14042]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can stay obtaines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49327]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can stay obtaines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I say tell me the truth, but you donÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â«t dare. I tell you how I feel but you donÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â«t care. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34907]]></link><description><![CDATA[I say tell me the truth, but you donÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â«t dare. I tell you how I feel but you donÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â«t care. You say love is a hell you cannot bear. Well I say give me mine back and then go there, for all I care!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48957]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22909]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The current immigration system lacks the fundamental understanding of the need for immigrants in this country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The current immigration system lacks the fundamental understanding of the need for immigrants in this country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fors juvat audentes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fors juvat audentes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24516]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34929]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19875]]></link><description><![CDATA[HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43944]]></link><description><![CDATA[raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huzzaed out of my seven senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Huzzaed out of my seven senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now in his Palace of the West, Sinking to slumber, the bright Day,  Like a tired monarch fann'd to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now in his Palace of the West, Sinking to slumber, the bright Day,  Like a tired monarch fann'd to rest,   'Mid the cool airs of Evening lay;    While round his couch's golden rim     The gaudy clouds, like courtiers, crept--      Struggling each other's light to dim,       And catch his last smile e'er he slept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One eye-witness is better than ten hearsays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50888]]></link><description><![CDATA[One eye-witness is better than ten hearsays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48361]]></link><description><![CDATA[And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66379]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Noble houskeepers neede no dores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Noble houskeepers neede no dores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're applying a bit more pressure up top. We added an extra offensive midfielder. We tried to take it to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31285]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're applying a bit more pressure up top. We added an extra offensive midfielder. We tried to take it to them today so we could maybe have success early.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43438]]></link><description><![CDATA[And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1943]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5890]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60670]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I value the privacy of my home and personal life extremely highly and am prepared to take appropriate measures to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I value the privacy of my home and personal life extremely highly and am prepared to take appropriate measures to protect it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people were really wonderful. They helped each other. We passed places where there was a forest on one side ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people were really wonderful. They helped each other. We passed places where there was a forest on one side of the road. Our route took us where there had been small homes and multi-million dollar homes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders of the political blocs reached an agreement on the constitution draft that guarantees the rights of all Iraqi people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders of the political blocs reached an agreement on the constitution draft that guarantees the rights of all Iraqi people in the referendum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In jealousy there is more of self-love than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23180]]></link><description><![CDATA[In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23180</guid></item></channel></rss>