<?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[Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19316]]></link><description><![CDATA[And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13448]]></link><description><![CDATA[They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3275]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A grisly meteor on his face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A grisly meteor on his face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal  I served my king, he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55224]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal  I served my king, he would not in mine age   Have left me naked to mine enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. •Edmund Burke  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44393]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. •Edmund Burke    Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53917]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47838]]></link><description><![CDATA[He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the sources of our troubles, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57886]]></link><description><![CDATA[No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43859]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the seed of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the seed of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45229]]></link><description><![CDATA[He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40479]]></link><description><![CDATA[No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54564]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26913]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have started that which the country will not willingly let die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32005]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have started that which the country will not willingly let die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24244]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You (reporters) should have printed what he meant, not what he said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23345]]></link><description><![CDATA[You (reporters) should have printed what he meant, not what he said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35334]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May your glass be ever full May the roof over your head be always strong,  And may you be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59402]]></link><description><![CDATA[May your glass be ever full May the roof over your head be always strong,  And may you be in heaven   Half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945   Furthermore, [the unchristian environment] is the place where we find out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945   Furthermore, [the unchristian environment] is the place where we find out whether the Christian's meditation has led him into the unreal, from which he awakens in terror when he returns to the workaday world, or whether it has led him into a real contact with God, from which he emerges strengthened and purified. Has it transported him for a moment into a spiritual ecstasy that vanishes when everyday life returns, or has it lodged the Word of God so securely and deeply in his heart that it holds and fortifies him, impelling him to active love, to obedience, to good works? Only the day can decide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The changes implemented by the AHL last season were successful in increasing the flow of the game and generating additional ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33107]]></link><description><![CDATA[The changes implemented by the AHL last season were successful in increasing the flow of the game and generating additional offensive opportunities, and the NHL's recent revisions in their own rules package will further enhance the quality of our sport.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While twilight's curtain gathering far, Is pinned with a single diamond star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57830]]></link><description><![CDATA[While twilight's curtain gathering far, Is pinned with a single diamond star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23226]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there a man whose judgment clear Can others teach the course to steer,  Yet runs himself life's mad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there a man whose judgment clear Can others teach the course to steer,  Yet runs himself life's mad career,   Wild as the wave?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9512]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's secure is not safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54641]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's secure is not safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say that every individual has the right to religious freedom is not to condone religious indifferentism or irresponsibility, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34983]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that every individual has the right to religious freedom is not to condone religious indifferentism or irresponsibility, nor is it to promote the installation of a supermarket of religions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have said that NeXT is 5 to 7 years ahead of the competition, ... Candidly, we made the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35757]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have said that NeXT is 5 to 7 years ahead of the competition, ... Candidly, we made the same assessment. That's why I made the acquisition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, like charity, begins at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, like charity, begins at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed; Give us courage to change what should be changed; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55194]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed; Give us courage to change what should be changed; Give us the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25472</guid></item></channel></rss>