<?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[Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is clever, but not dishonest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17730]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is clever, but not dishonest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63504]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is either a great adventure or nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a great adventure or nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: "Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide,  Every one lets forth his sprite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide,  Every one lets forth his sprite,   In the churchway paths to glide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives;  Whom none can love, whom none ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20893]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives;  Whom none can love, whom none can thank,--   Creation's blot, creation's blank.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to see every problemas a nail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21839]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to see every problemas a nail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No answer is also an answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11605]]></link><description><![CDATA[No answer is also an answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll have to wait and see what the results and lessons learned from the Genesis mishap reviews are to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll have to wait and see what the results and lessons learned from the Genesis mishap reviews are to see how they will affect Mars Sample Return designs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53398]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42272]]></link><description><![CDATA[He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22342</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[He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55662]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear how he clears the points o' Faith Wi' rattling an' thumpin'!  Now meekly calm, now wild in wrath, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear how he clears the points o' Faith Wi' rattling an' thumpin'!  Now meekly calm, now wild in wrath,   He's stampin', and he's jumpin'!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parsons are soules waggoners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parsons are soules waggoners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13167]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14316]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26166]]></link><description><![CDATA[To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3854]]></link><description><![CDATA[When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34305]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29752]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get enthusiasm from one core group of people, they go out and drum up support and enthusiasm in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35039]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get enthusiasm from one core group of people, they go out and drum up support and enthusiasm in the community and you get the ball rolling and it's infectious, that's how people make things happen,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foole knowes more in his house, then a wise man in anothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49019]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foole knowes more in his house, then a wise man in anothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3909]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[" Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2450]]></link><description><![CDATA[" Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that there is a power struggle over who will control the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that there is a power struggle over who will control the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  But upon a day the good providence of God did cast me to Bedford to work on my calling, and in one of the streets of that town I came where there were three or four poor women sitting at a door in the sun and talking about the things of God; and being now willing to hear them discourse, I drew near to hear what they said, for I was now a brisk talker also myself in the matters of religion. But now I may say I heard, but I understood not; for they were far above, out of my reach; for their talk was about a new birth -- the work of God on their hearts. And methought they spake as if Joy did make them speak; they spake with such pleasantness of scripture language and with such appearance of grace in all they said, that they were to me as if they had found a new world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Erroneous vassals! the great King of Kings Hath in the table of his law commanded  That thou shalt do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Erroneous vassals! the great King of Kings Hath in the table of his law commanded  That thou shalt do no murder. Will you then   Spurn at his edict, and fulfil a man's?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open slies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44504]]></link><description><![CDATA[After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open slies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25582]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. [Lat., Periere mores, jus, decus, pietas, fides,  Et qui redire nescit, cum perit, pudor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He not only understands the defensive concepts we're trying to accomplish, he understands what the offense is thinking, too. So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34086]]></link><description><![CDATA[He not only understands the defensive concepts we're trying to accomplish, he understands what the offense is thinking, too. So I can position him mentally to take the strains off of our linebackers and the rest of the secondary. I can put all the mental cover-down rules on him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54793]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just stopped to see if Donnie wanted a ride, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just stopped to see if Donnie wanted a ride,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out It's all about timing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24802</guid></item></channel></rss>