<?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[Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they raise 25 basis points and sound worried about inflation the market may get demoralized, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37907]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they raise 25 basis points and sound worried about inflation the market may get demoralized,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47202]]></link><description><![CDATA[I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love isn't who you can see yourself with, it's who you can't see yourself without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love isn't who you can see yourself with, it's who you can't see yourself without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58761]]></link><description><![CDATA[A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see things not as they are but as we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56258]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see things not as they are but as we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833  It is indeed a most lamentable consequence of the practice of regarding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833  It is indeed a most lamentable consequence of the practice of regarding religion as a compilation of statutes, and not as an internal principle, that it soon comes to be considered as being conversant about external actions rather than about habits of mind. This sentiment sometimes has even the hardiness to insinuate and maintain itself under the guise of extraordinary concern for practical religion; but it soon discovers the falsehood of this pretension, and betrays its real nature. The expedient, indeed, of attaining to superiority in practice by not wasting any of the attention on the internal principles from which alone practice can flow, is about as reasonable, and will answer about as well, as the economy of an architect who should account it mere prodigality to expend any of his materials in laying foundation, from an idea that they might be more usefully applied to the raising of the superstructure. We know what would be the fate of such an edifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot in the east and the other in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot in the east and the other in the west; and the sun never sets that it does not shine on some of his dominions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion holds up the botton of the world, while genius paints its roof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion holds up the botton of the world, while genius paints its roof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wake Forest is honored to once again host the NCAA Championships. I believe our staff at Wake Forest puts on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wake Forest is honored to once again host the NCAA Championships. I believe our staff at Wake Forest puts on a first class presentation that all four teams will enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42801]]></link><description><![CDATA[By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. [Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. [Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My voice is still for war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61123]]></link><description><![CDATA[My voice is still for war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no hard matter to adhere to God while you are in the enjoyment of His comforts and consolations; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no hard matter to adhere to God while you are in the enjoyment of His comforts and consolations; but if you would prove your fidelity to Him, you must be willing to follow Him through the paths of dryness and desertion. The truth of a friend is not known while he is receiving favours and benefits from us; but if he remain faithful to us when we treat him with coldness and neglect, it will be a proof of the sincerity of his attachment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God sends. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7464]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God sends. That being so, you might perhaps do one or two little things, as acts of love, and also as discipline. I suggest by preference the mortification of the tongue -- as being very tiresome and quite harmless to the health. Careful guard on all amusing criticisms of others, on all complaints however casual or trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54859]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. -Nora Roberts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many American editors and publishers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1286]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not that others should search out anything, and would have us believe like rustics and ask no reason...But we ask in all things a reason must be sought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4632]]></link><description><![CDATA["Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a man Of an unbounded stomach. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56053]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a man Of an unbounded stomach. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr  O little town of Bethlehem,   How still we see thee lie! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr  O little town of Bethlehem,   How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep   The silent stars go by: Yet in thy dark streets shineth   The everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years   Are met in thee tonight. For Christ is born of Mary;   And gathered all above, While mortals sleep, the angels keep   Their watch of wondering love. O morning stars together   Proclaim the holy birth; And praises sing to God the King,   And peace to men on earth. How silently, how silently,   The wondrous gift is giv'n! So God imparts to human hearts   The blessings of His Heav'n. No ear may hear His coming,   But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive Him still,   The dear Christ enters in. O holy Child of Bethlehem,   Descend to us, we pray, Cast out our sins, and enter in,   Be born in us today. We hear the Christmas angels   The great glad tidings tell; O come to us, abide with us,   Our Lord Emmanuel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women's music is underrepresented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women's music is underrepresented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just earning my minutes, I knew I had the capabilities to play here, and it was just a matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just earning my minutes, I knew I had the capabilities to play here, and it was just a matter of going out and doing it. Finally I'm doing it and I'm even more hungry to do even more, there are more things I can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.  The French ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5020]]></link><description><![CDATA[In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.  The French are with equal advantage content--   So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta committi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd by all that is sweetest in life   Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten in strife!    But if, out of humour, and hungry, alone     A man should sit down to dinner, each one      Of the dishes which the cook chooses to spoil       With a horrible mixture of garlic and oil,        The chances are ten against one, I must own,         He gets up as ill-tempered as when he sat down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All locations are looking at that possibility. The more it's accepted in the marketplace, the more it catches on, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41244]]></link><description><![CDATA[All locations are looking at that possibility. The more it's accepted in the marketplace, the more it catches on, you will see that next level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28502]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tree not taller than an ant cannot shade you. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66249]]></link><description><![CDATA[I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56206]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you. [Lat., Si calceum induisses, tum demum sentires qua parte te urgeret.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He spent hours and hours sifting through different sites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42311]]></link><description><![CDATA[He spent hours and hours sifting through different sites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42311</guid></item></channel></rss>