<?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[On top of this, it's a good idea to take up references. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36402]]></link><description><![CDATA[On top of this, it's a good idea to take up references.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gave it serious consideration; he had a number of conversations with his family. He is not going to run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30037]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gave it serious consideration; he had a number of conversations with his family. He is not going to run for governor next year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones,  Forget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones,  Forget not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54594]]></link><description><![CDATA[See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had some fantastic swimmers in the 400 free and we were tired. The adrenaline flow was so heavy early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39250]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had some fantastic swimmers in the 400 free and we were tired. The adrenaline flow was so heavy early and by the end it was a struggle. It was a very draining meet in terms of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12846]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65748]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57755]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58867]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   Evil can be interpreted as guilt only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   Evil can be interpreted as guilt only where human existence is understood as personal, and that means where the existence of man is understood to be in responsibility to the Divine Thou. This is the depth of human distress, that we are separated from God, that our communion with Him is destroyed, that man has emancipated himself (has taken himself out of the hand of God) and has become independent, his own master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is life distilled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is life distilled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion and atheism will both survive it [the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion and atheism will both survive it [the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a caldron, and at some point it's just going to boil over. We're at the edge, and this administration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31860]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a caldron, and at some point it's just going to boil over. We're at the edge, and this administration and this Legislature need to do something before we lose (control of) a prison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10091]]></link><description><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44217]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It should come from them. It affects them. It's their baby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29297]]></link><description><![CDATA[It should come from them. It affects them. It's their baby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62356]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43728]]></link><description><![CDATA[I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily.  This wol be done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily.  This wol be done at leisure parfitly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for himself, not for another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3030]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the movement from darkness to light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the movement from darkness to light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids are feeling better about what they are doing, and are ready for that 'W' on Tuesday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids are feeling better about what they are doing, and are ready for that 'W' on Tuesday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would the gods had made thee poetical. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would the gods had made thee poetical. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voyager upon life's sea:-- To yourself be true,  And whate'er you lot may be,   Paddle your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voyager upon life's sea:-- To yourself be true,  And whate'er you lot may be,   Paddle your own canoe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ACC, Pac-10, whoever it is, we go into the games expecting to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35380]]></link><description><![CDATA[ACC, Pac-10, whoever it is, we go into the games expecting to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55156]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to be thought so shortly. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37224]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25592]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20222]]></link><description><![CDATA[And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15976]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A radical is one who speaks the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52928]]></link><description><![CDATA[A radical is one who speaks the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54090</guid></item></channel></rss>