<?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[As innocent as a new-laid egg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20952]]></link><description><![CDATA[As innocent as a new-laid egg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare,   A little child in a manger. The oxen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare,   A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care,   To men He was a stranger, The safety of the world was lying there,   And the world's danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills -- neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23050]]></link><description><![CDATA[When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19944]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting rid of a man without hurting his masculinity is a problem. 'Get out' and 'I never want to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting rid of a man without hurting his masculinity is a problem. 'Get out' and 'I never want to see you again' might sound like a challenge. If you want to get rid of a man, I suggest saying, 'I love you.... I want to marry you.... I want to have your children.' Sometimes they leave skid marks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In other circumstances it would not be a very big deal, but I would say the Election Commission was too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35928]]></link><description><![CDATA[In other circumstances it would not be a very big deal, but I would say the Election Commission was too complacent about explaining the changes to the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/83]]></link><description><![CDATA[Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/83</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de grands defauts.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew,  For we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew,  For we're booming down on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail,   We're sagging south on the Long Trail, the trail that is always new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See things as you would have them be instead of as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22229]]></link><description><![CDATA[See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12122]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our studies of HIV patients with painful feet -peripheral neuropathy- animal studies have already demonstrated that marijuana, where opioids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33821]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our studies of HIV patients with painful feet -peripheral neuropathy- animal studies have already demonstrated that marijuana, where opioids don't work, works for nerve pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2046]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1166]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20269]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'  Flatter and praise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'  Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces;   Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces.    That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man,     If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things; and you say: "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say: "Why not?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63516]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things; and you say: "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say: "Why not?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no whole truths. All truths are half truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59854]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no whole truths. All truths are half truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63754]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57137]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She sees the same qualities in me that she saw in young Phil Crane. Phil Crane today isn't the Phil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39827]]></link><description><![CDATA[She sees the same qualities in me that she saw in young Phil Crane. Phil Crane today isn't the Phil Crane of 35 years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank dominated from the start. He then took him to the ground, top-mounted him, and let out a flurry of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frank dominated from the start. He then took him to the ground, top-mounted him, and let out a flurry of punches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44784]]></link><description><![CDATA[He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had delusions of adequacy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11848]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had delusions of adequacy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61888]]></link><description><![CDATA[She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all the silent manliness of grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18330]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all the silent manliness of grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46056]]></link><description><![CDATA[To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danny can't kick. It seems bizarre. I'm not prepared to risk him. But, hopefully, he will be able to sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danny can't kick. It seems bizarre. I'm not prepared to risk him. But, hopefully, he will be able to sit on the bench.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9396]]></link><description><![CDATA[All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9396</guid></item></channel></rss>