<?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[It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think most historians will agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think most historians will agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was small; first and foremost, the slaughter was meant as an offering to the gods, to king and country, or the future happiness of mankind. The crimes of Caligula shrink to insignificance compared to the havoc wrought by Torquemada. The number of victims of robbers, highwaymen, rapists, gangsters and other criminals at any period of history is negligible compared to the massive numbers of those cheerfully slain in the name of the true religion, just policy, or correct ideology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8926]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a body meet a body going to the Fair, If a body kiss a body need a body care? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23827]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a body meet a body going to the Fair, If a body kiss a body need a body care?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48218]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53774]]></link><description><![CDATA[A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43838]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,— Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55711]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,— Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been no more than a medium, as it were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been no more than a medium, as it were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16803]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Severn didn't have the right kind of personality for WWE and I don't think they really had any idea what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Severn didn't have the right kind of personality for WWE and I don't think they really had any idea what to do with him. Tank Abbott had an amateur background but made his name in UFC brawling. He never learned to work at all and was a victim of Vince Russo 's wackiness in WCW.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15722]]></link><description><![CDATA[What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's significantly faster than the first mile, the coach should have raised eyebrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41795]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's significantly faster than the first mile, the coach should have raised eyebrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My last day here in Hampton is October 4, ... I will then take time for a deep breath, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39483]]></link><description><![CDATA[My last day here in Hampton is October 4, ... I will then take time for a deep breath, and then send everything to the cleaners and start again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hire tea by the tea bag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hire tea by the tea bag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1922]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man meets his Waterloo at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man meets his Waterloo at last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just unreal. I get 53 miles per gallon and it still hurts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just unreal. I get 53 miles per gallon and it still hurts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say,  "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58262]]></link><description><![CDATA[All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say,  "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven,   Whilk sent this summer day."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's not growing, it's going to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21633]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's not growing, it's going to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog--keeps him from broodin' over bein' a bog, mebbe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27795]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog--keeps him from broodin' over bein' a bog, mebbe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns--you shall not crucify mankind upon a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17767]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns--you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54057]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call,  And the blackbird plays but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call,  And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute,   But I love him best of all.    For his song is all the joy of life,     And we in the mad spring weather,      We two have listened till he sang       Our hearts and lips together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54895]]></link><description><![CDATA[That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, toanother-and especially yourself-"I Can't," take a deep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, toanother-and especially yourself-"I Can't," take a deep breathand say instead, "My resources are otherwise engaged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two best physicians of them all -- Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two best physicians of them all -- Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the afternoon of her best days. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the afternoon of her best days. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14241]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2637]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it is useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50554]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it is useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for, his sins. One may passively be cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for, his sins. One may passively be cast down by God's terrors, and yet not willingly throw himself down as he ought at God's footstool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46034]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The role of research has always been to do the groundbreaking work and, as part of IBM, to transfer the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The role of research has always been to do the groundbreaking work and, as part of IBM, to transfer the work to products. I see my career as standing on a wall and seeing both ways. One way is seeing new possibilities and the other is building new products.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They gained rhythm and confidence with every turnover. Every game in which we lost the turnover battle, we lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32361]]></link><description><![CDATA[They gained rhythm and confidence with every turnover. Every game in which we lost the turnover battle, we lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen is when the bull jumps, he sets you up so that you lean way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen is when the bull jumps, he sets you up so that you lean way back,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a privilege as well as being exciting. The fans are extremely tribal, very parochial, very supportive, and it's one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32586]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a privilege as well as being exciting. The fans are extremely tribal, very parochial, very supportive, and it's one of the huge highlights so far of my coaching career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32586</guid></item></channel></rss>