<?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[We were hoping to get a better handle on it. We knew the plume was fairly widespread. I think the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40496]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were hoping to get a better handle on it. We knew the plume was fairly widespread. I think the testing changed our perspective from looking for one source to looking for multiple sources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While it is right to stress the dangers of the permissive society, the argument from danger is not in itself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7562]]></link><description><![CDATA[While it is right to stress the dangers of the permissive society, the argument from danger is not in itself a good argument, because it seems to imply that, if the danger could be removed, if there was no risk of a child and no peril of infection, then the objection would be removed, too. It tends to imply that the objection is to the attendant dangers and not to the thing itself. But if sexual intercourse before and outside marriage is against the teaching of Jesus, then the thing is not only dangerous, it is wrong in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self - praise is no recommendation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self - praise is no recommendation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're doing everything we can to keep him ready for whatever the future brings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're doing everything we can to keep him ready for whatever the future brings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things that have really struck me are just the overwhelming support from the communities and the churches themselves, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things that have really struck me are just the overwhelming support from the communities and the churches themselves, ... People have provided aid to these families even before the government's been there to help them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64792]]></link><description><![CDATA[My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17495]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice;  As if Divinity had catch'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28]]></link><description><![CDATA[He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice;  As if Divinity had catch'd   The itch, on purpose to be scratched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/108]]></link><description><![CDATA[From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25590]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's privacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have good home cooking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40760]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have good home cooking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simplicity of the interaction is one of the most critical things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32067]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simplicity of the interaction is one of the most critical things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In one word, this ideal is that you are divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66643]]></link><description><![CDATA[In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13618]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41651]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62159]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4529]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's headed up here. The hungry will be living on the same street as the captains of industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's headed up here. The hungry will be living on the same street as the captains of industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34281]]></link><description><![CDATA[High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observation--activity of both eyes and ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observation--activity of both eyes and ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness hates the timid! So does science! - Strange Interlude, 1928. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness hates the timid! So does science! - Strange Interlude, 1928.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64393]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13688]]></link><description><![CDATA[An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love dance. We want everybody, dancers and non-dancers alike, to have access to this beautiful art form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33310]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love dance. We want everybody, dancers and non-dancers alike, to have access to this beautiful art form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11771]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52844]]></link><description><![CDATA[By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In dreams begins responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12879]]></link><description><![CDATA[In dreams begins responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When building a team, I first look for people who love towin, if I can't find any of those, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22356]]></link><description><![CDATA[When building a team, I first look for people who love towin, if I can't find any of those, then I look for people who hate tolose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed, to those for whom love still heals, even though they've been hurt before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be willing to bet that if one day a woman walked barefoot to the moon and back and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3430]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be willing to bet that if one day a woman walked barefoot to the moon and back and a man cleaned out his desk, when the two of them sat down to dinner that night he would say, ‘Boy was that desk a mess.’]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought Pat (Connolly) threw well for us, but you can't win games fielding the way we did. This one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought Pat (Connolly) threw well for us, but you can't win games fielding the way we did. This one is tough to accept. But the kids never quit. The kids hung in there and we battled back-and-forth, back-and-forth. It was a wild high school baseball game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to come across as a positive person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to come across as a positive person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy your game and chase your dreams, because dreams do come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy your game and chase your dreams, because dreams do come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46391</guid></item></channel></rss>