<?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[A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46956]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are cruel, but Man is kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are cruel, but Man is kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51561]]></link><description><![CDATA[God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no glory in outstripping donkeys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15890]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13518]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/866]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15008]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not who you can see yourself with. It is who you can’t see yourself without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not who you can see yourself with. It is who you can’t see yourself without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3956]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What means this glory round our feet," The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!"  And voices chanted clear and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8638]]></link><description><![CDATA["What means this glory round our feet," The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!"  And voices chanted clear and sweet,   "To-day the Prince of Peace is born."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1939]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impact is real, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impact is real,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will never have quotas in this city as long as I am mayor, but we will darn sure have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28713]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will never have quotas in this city as long as I am mayor, but we will darn sure have goals,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of refined taste and judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50178]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of refined taste and judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are doing very well, making good money, more money than the rooms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35809]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are doing very well, making good money, more money than the rooms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4603]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66215]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44160]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, the quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of thelife of your cells. If the bloodstream is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, the quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of thelife of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, theresulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy celllife-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life foran individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the cups, And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,  The trumpet to the cannoneer without,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the cups, And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,  The trumpet to the cannoneer without,   The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth,    'Now the king drinks to Hamlet.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, in a man who is made partaker of His nature, desireth and taketh no revenge for all the wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7175]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, in a man who is made partaker of His nature, desireth and taketh no revenge for all the wrong that is or can be done unto Him. This we see in Christ when He saith: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."  ... Theologia Germanica  June 21, 1998  Alas! day by day we ask that His Will may be done, and yet, when it comes to the doing, we find it so hard! We offer ourselves so often to God -- we continually say, "Lord, I am Thine, I give Thee my heart," and when He accepts it, we are such cowards. How dare we call ourselves His, if we cannot shape our own wills to His?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is only fanastical that is not in fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15339]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest part about being friends, is loving you so much ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest part about being friends, is loving you so much]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word "Comforter" as applied to the Holy Spirit needs to be translated by some vigorous term. Literally, it means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word "Comforter" as applied to the Holy Spirit needs to be translated by some vigorous term. Literally, it means "with strength." Jesus promised His followers that "The Strengthener" would be with them forever. This promise is no lullaby for the faint-hearted. It is a blood transfusion for courageous living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Income and sales taxes are both collected in dribs and drabs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Income and sales taxes are both collected in dribs and drabs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray you all, If you have hitherto concealed this sight,  Let it be tenable in your silence still. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray you all, If you have hitherto concealed this sight,  Let it be tenable in your silence still.   And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,    Give it an understanding but no tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Form'd by thy converse, happily steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Form'd by thy converse, happily steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past-- For years fleet away with the wings of the dove-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23825]]></link><description><![CDATA[When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past-- For years fleet away with the wings of the dove--  The dearest remembrance will still be the last,   Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!  Gloomy was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!  Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow   He would be coy, and would not love at all;    Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought,     Than love united to a jealous thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill! But let it whistle as it will,  We'll keep up Christmas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill! But let it whistle as it will,  We'll keep up Christmas merry still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always think that, in Britain, we are terribly ignorant about India, as befits an ex-imperialist nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always think that, in Britain, we are terribly ignorant about India, as befits an ex-imperialist nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9523]]></link><description><![CDATA[FORTRAN --'the infantile disorder'--, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.PL/I --'the fatal disease'-- belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A win is always the answer to get the bad taste out of your mouth. Beating Iowa is a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A win is always the answer to get the bad taste out of your mouth. Beating Iowa is a great feeling. In our hearts, we all know we can beat any team in the country. We just need to believe it and play like we can every game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light may come where all looks darkest, Hope hath life, when life seems o'er. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light may come where all looks darkest, Hope hath life, when life seems o'er.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cry every chance I get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27832]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cry every chance I get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34903</guid></item></channel></rss>