<?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[After it's all said and done, we usually have a couple thousand left, and we donate that to the Anacortes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37671]]></link><description><![CDATA[After it's all said and done, we usually have a couple thousand left, and we donate that to the Anacortes Boys and Girls Club.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65091]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar is the grave of letters ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar is the grave of letters]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are . . . robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56541]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are . . . robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding -- that existence is a struggle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26530]]></link><description><![CDATA[To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45216]]></link><description><![CDATA[In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connect as it were by some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3173]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connect as it were by some relationship. [Lat., Etenim omnes artes, quae ad humanitatem pertinent, habent quoddam commune vinculum, et quasi cognatione quadam inter se continentur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30152]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way,  Self-mettle tires him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way,  Self-mettle tires him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little gale will soon disperse that cloud And blow it to the source from whence it came.  Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57908]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little gale will soon disperse that cloud And blow it to the source from whence it came.  Thy very beams will dry those vapors up,   For every cloud engenders not a storm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel he'll be a great fit for our team, ... He'll come in and be our No. 3 quarterback. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30749]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel he'll be a great fit for our team, ... He'll come in and be our No. 3 quarterback. It gives us some great insurance and a feeling that we can sleep at night that we have a bona fide NFL starter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28731]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe we can get to the final. Paradoxically losing 1-0 in the first leg will help us play with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe we can get to the final. Paradoxically losing 1-0 in the first leg will help us play with greater freedom and relaxation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8883]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To refuse graciously is to confer a favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15488]]></link><description><![CDATA[To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39185]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not for the money this time. The one thing we can't live with is class size and composition. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30779]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not for the money this time. The one thing we can't live with is class size and composition. We know that in going out, we're going to harm students, but this time, staying in the class will harm students. Do we go out, or do we stay in the class and watch students being harmed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old father antic the law. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old father antic the law. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we look out towards this love that moves the stars and stirs in the child's heart and claims our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7789]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we look out towards this love that moves the stars and stirs in the child's heart and claims our total allegiance, and remember that this alone is Reality and we are only real so far as we conform to its demands, we see our human situation from a fresh angle; and we perceive that it is both more humble and dependent, and more splendid, than we had dreamed. We are surrounded and penetrated by great spiritual forces of which we hardly know anything. Yet the outward events of our life cannot be understood, except in their relation to that unseen and intensely living world, the Infinite Charity which penetrates and supports us, the God whom we resist and yet for whom we thirst; who is ever at work, transforming the self-centred desire of the natural creature into the wide spreading, outpouring love of the citizen of Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now give me my camel back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now give me my camel back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there's life, there's hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there's life, there's hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34757]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated,  And now doth fare ill   On the top of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated,  And now doth fare ill   On the top of the bare hill;    The Ploughboy is whooping--anon--anon!     There's joy in the mountains:      There's life in the fountains;       Small clouds are sailing,        Blue sky prevailing;         The rain is over and gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole musical landscape is being organized through the choreography. It was as if the dancers themselves became my score. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole musical landscape is being organized through the choreography. It was as if the dancers themselves became my score.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My delivery got out of hand a little. It's frustrating but I won't let it get to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30847]]></link><description><![CDATA[My delivery got out of hand a little. It's frustrating but I won't let it get to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am fascinated by the act of making something real that at one point is only an idea. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am fascinated by the act of making something real that at one point is only an idea. It is challenging and beguiling to sense something inside, put it on paper (or carve it in stone), and then step back and see how much has got lost in the process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   I met the society and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   I met the society and explained to them ... the original design of the Methodists, namely, not to be a distinct party, but to stir up all parties, ... to worship God in spirit and in truth; but the Church of England in particular, to which they belonged from the beginning. With this view I have uniformly gone on for fifty years, never varying from the doctrine of the Church at all; nor from her discipline, of choice, but of necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4861]]></link><description><![CDATA[How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15678]]></link><description><![CDATA[FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would hate to see a future U.S. Social Security commissioner urging American older workers to just keep working until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would hate to see a future U.S. Social Security commissioner urging American older workers to just keep working until the markets come back, ... We don't really know how long that wait might be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58686]]></link><description><![CDATA[With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" — not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn the land over to businesses that will pay more taxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Oxen and the ButchersThe oxen once upon a time sought to destroy the Butchers, who practiced a trade destructive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Oxen and the ButchersThe oxen once upon a time sought to destroy the Butchers, who practiced a trade destructive to their race. They assembled on a certain day to carry out their purpose, and sharpened their horns for the contest. But one of them who was exceedingly old (for many a field had he plowed) thus spoke: These Butchers, it is true, slaughter us, but they do so with skillful hands, and with no unnecessary pain. If we get rid of them, we shall fall into the hands of unskillful operators, and thus suffer a double death: for you may be assured, that though all the Butchers should perish, yet will men never want beef. Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26010]]></link><description><![CDATA[As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16817]]></link><description><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16817</guid></item></channel></rss>