<?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[I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time in Vietnam told me many stories—but none more chilling than the one from two helicopter pilots. They told me how they would shoot the friendlies on their way back from reconnaissance missions just so they could empty their ammunition before returning to base. The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand. But to the American pilots, they were simply dots on the ground.Whitehead is a political conservative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and notyour god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and notyour god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is love and light and vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is love and light and vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53688]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mans discontent is his worst evill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49058]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mans discontent is his worst evill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is the talent of a person who is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3279]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23710]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics is written for mathematicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics is written for mathematicians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe,  Hews down and fells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46167]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe,  Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10708]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting histhumb on the scales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting histhumb on the scales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent partie is still faultie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent partie is still faultie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits, Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;  And now the happy season once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59491]]></link><description><![CDATA[All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits, Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;  And now the happy season once more fits   That lovesick Love by pleading may be blest;    For lovers say the heart hath treble wrong     When it is barred the aidance of the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relativity applies to physics, not ethics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relativity applies to physics, not ethics]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civility costs nothing and buys everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civility costs nothing and buys everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is not well. I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come!  Till then sit still, my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58413]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is not well. I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come!  Till then sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise,   Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54942]]></link><description><![CDATA[When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very common story. They're two very hard-working parents who have careers. They have aspirations. They're working extremely hard, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very common story. They're two very hard-working parents who have careers. They have aspirations. They're working extremely hard, but they have children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18847]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59807]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63687]]></link><description><![CDATA[At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was kind of bare when we first came here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41545]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was kind of bare when we first came here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52260]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the marketplace and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. [Ger., Nichts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. [Ger., Nichts unter der Sonne ist Zufall--am wenigsten das wovon die Absicht so klar in die Augen leuchtet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When that one went out, the wheels kind of fell off. We knew what we were up against. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38811]]></link><description><![CDATA[When that one went out, the wheels kind of fell off. We knew what we were up against.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice. Your circumstance can affect it, but you're still the one who decides your happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice. Your circumstance can affect it, but you're still the one who decides your happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask me, do I believe there will be a Chinese competitor in a number of years, the answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40620]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask me, do I believe there will be a Chinese competitor in a number of years, the answer is yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51751]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of Paul's most important teachings... is the doctrine of what we call "justification by faith". It frequently appears to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7609]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of Paul's most important teachings... is the doctrine of what we call "justification by faith". It frequently appears to the non-Christian mind that this is an immoral or at least unmoral doctrine. Paul appears to be saying that a man is justified before God, not by his goodness or badness, not by his good deeds or bad deeds, but by believing in a certain doctrine of Atonement. Of course, when we come to examine the matter more closely, we can see that there is nothing unmoral in this teaching at all. For if "faith" means using a God-given faculty to apprehend the unseen divine order, and means, moreover, involving oneself in that order by personal commitment, we can at once see how different that is from merely accepting a certain view of Christian redemption... That which man in every religion, every century, every country, was powerless to affect, God has achieved by the devastating humility of His action and suffering in Jesus Christ. Now, accepting such an action as a fait accompli is only possible by this perceptive faculty of "faith". It requires not merely intellectual assent but a shifting of personal trust from the achievements of the self to the completely undeserved action of God. To accept this teaching by mind and heart does, indeed, require a metanoia ["transformation"], a revolution in the outlook of both heart and mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47306]]></link><description><![CDATA[I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21240]]></link><description><![CDATA[And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27498]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a statute that says we're exempt from impact fees. Period. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33438]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a statute that says we're exempt from impact fees. Period.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33438</guid></item></channel></rss>