<?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[Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50633]]></link><description><![CDATA[They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service without reward is punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service without reward is punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Court, every one for himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49140]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Court, every one for himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect  God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore   Only among ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect  God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore   Only among the crowd and under roofs    That our frail hands have raised?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39554]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57582]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's as good at his age as Jack (Nicklaus) was, and look at what Jack has done in the gime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57447]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's as good at his age as Jack (Nicklaus) was, and look at what Jack has done in the gime of golf. That's the highest praise I can give anyone, to compare him to Jack Nicklaus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and formal logic bear a relationship similar to that between higher and lower mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536  God is our true Friend, who always gives us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536  God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us. We know well enough how to keep outward silence, and to hush our spoken words, but we know little of interior silence. It consists in hushing our idle, restless, wandering imagination, in quieting the promptings of our worldly minds, and in suppressing the crowd of unprofitable thoughts which excite and disturb the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47680]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers with dependent children can be sternly lectured on the need for self-reliance, but not dependent executives and investors, please. For them, the welfare state must flourish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43822]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear a long black coat   All button'd down before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. [Fr., La satire ment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. [Fr., La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et l'eloge ment apres leur mort.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?  Nor is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52463]]></link><description><![CDATA[For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?  Nor is the people's judgment always true:   The most may err as grossly as the few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32313]]></link><description><![CDATA[My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/370]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is a dealer in hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24491]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is a dealer in hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The developers have to go back to the drawing board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The developers have to go back to the drawing board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It obviously makes a statement about status and the ability to afford it but I think it's also a spontaneous, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It obviously makes a statement about status and the ability to afford it but I think it's also a spontaneous, celebratory thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll give thee armor to keep off that word; Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,  To comfort thee, though thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46498]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll give thee armor to keep off that word; Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,  To comfort thee, though thou art banished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21214]]></link><description><![CDATA[What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43597]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was one of the best things that have happened to me, a tournament like that representing your country. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28913]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was one of the best things that have happened to me, a tournament like that representing your country. It was a good experience for all of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just looked a lot worse than it was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just looked a lot worse than it was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolution is no strange and extraordinary thing; it is one of the most common acts that belong to us as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolution is no strange and extraordinary thing; it is one of the most common acts that belong to us as we are men. But we do not ordinarily apply it to the best purposes. It is not so ordinary for men to resolve to be good as to resolve to be rich and great, not so common for men to resolve against sin as to resolve against poverty and suffering. It is not so usual for men to resolve to keep a good conscience as to keep a good place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's allowed me to really learn a lot about fund-raising throughout the metropolitan area, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39542]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's allowed me to really learn a lot about fund-raising throughout the metropolitan area,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12296]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Democrats are staring down the barrel of a gun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32420]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Democrats are staring down the barrel of a gun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61454]]></link><description><![CDATA[This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9886]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a one-way street, and we are not coming back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a one-way street, and we are not coming back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61781]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61781</guid></item></channel></rss>