<?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[It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare is the union of beauty and purity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rare is the union of beauty and purity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast;  Custards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast;  Custards for supper, and an endless host   Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies,    And other such ladylike luxuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing today an unmistakable confirmation that there is in the country the emergence of a new political culture. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37525]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing today an unmistakable confirmation that there is in the country the emergence of a new political culture. A sense that the legacy of the rule of the gun can be resisted is now taking root.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great fortune is a great slavery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42996]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great fortune is a great slavery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44909]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement,  Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisement.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moment of silence is not inherently religious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64114]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moment of silence is not inherently religious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!   Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!    Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight     But when her humorous ladyship is by      To teach thee safety!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present perfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfect and not deficient because I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and I am not deficient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College is the best time of your life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8950]]></link><description><![CDATA[College is the best time of your life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In (the) tsunami-affected region, we are trying to do that, to say 'This is an opportunity to go about things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41515]]></link><description><![CDATA[In (the) tsunami-affected region, we are trying to do that, to say 'This is an opportunity to go about things the right way and take the time to do it right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane -- if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground -- ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists.   - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35905]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your wife will be very happy, ... If she's not, send her back. One thing about our company, customer satisfaction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your wife will be very happy, ... If she's not, send her back. One thing about our company, customer satisfaction is guaranteed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy is better unborn than untaught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58745]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy is better unborn than untaught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are looking as fresh as paint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27650]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are looking as fresh as paint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonathan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonathan Swift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To simplify complications is the first essential of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/996]]></link><description><![CDATA[To simplify complications is the first essential of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52688]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4751]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[McClellan (4-0) threw a great game. He settled down and got us out of a couple of tense innings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31316]]></link><description><![CDATA[McClellan (4-0) threw a great game. He settled down and got us out of a couple of tense innings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15730]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those three kids have swung consistent bats all spring and they came through with those doubles all in a row. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those three kids have swung consistent bats all spring and they came through with those doubles all in a row. That was some great hitting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has multiple killing techniques. It ionizes (both) the oxygen found in normal air and hydrogen peroxide to kill bugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has multiple killing techniques. It ionizes (both) the oxygen found in normal air and hydrogen peroxide to kill bugs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The computer is a moron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The computer is a moron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.This is known as "bad luck.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55072]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me. -John Wesley.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43131]]></link><description><![CDATA[To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4959</guid></item></channel></rss>