<?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[Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls,  Who, never looking forward, are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls,  Who, never looking forward, are indeed   Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age    Are petrified forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26534]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64281]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61180]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down;  Each thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down;  Each thought on the woman who loved him the best,   And the children stood watching them out of the town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man's credit is as good as his money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10610]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man's credit is as good as his money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are punished by our sins, not for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64731]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are punished by our sins, not for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They played really well. We didn't execute very well. I thought we tackled poorly and we coughed the ball up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33626]]></link><description><![CDATA[They played really well. We didn't execute very well. I thought we tackled poorly and we coughed the ball up a couple times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselvesagainst the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21945]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselvesagainst the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when you stick on conversation's burs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10094]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when you stick on conversation's burs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[but it is only a small snapshot of what is going on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39734]]></link><description><![CDATA[but it is only a small snapshot of what is going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're here because we want the board of trustees and ballet management to respond to their audience, their subscribers, their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32305]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're here because we want the board of trustees and ballet management to respond to their audience, their subscribers, their patrons and restore live music, Future Subscriber If There's Live Music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle four-cornered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle four-cornered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   Faith is not so much belief about God as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   Faith is not so much belief about God as it is total, personal trust in God, rising to a personal fellowship with God that is stronger than anxiety and guilt, loneliness and all manner of disaster. The Christian's faith in Christ is trust in a Living Person, once crucified, dead, and buried, and now living forevermore. Call it, if you will, an assumption that ends as an assurance, or an experiment that ends as an experience, Christian faith is in fact a commitment that ends as a communion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember baseball cards I collected of Greg when I was in Little League. Now, to be in the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember baseball cards I collected of Greg when I was in Little League. Now, to be in the same locker room and be catching him in a big league game is quite an honor -- and an accomplishment to have made it this far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird  Always gayest of the gay,   Though a woodland roundelay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird  Always gayest of the gay,   Though a woodland roundelay    You ne'er sung not heard;     Though your life from youth to age      Passes is a narrow cage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways. [Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways. [Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west,  Where the sun, his day's work ended, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44525]]></link><description><![CDATA[A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west,  Where the sun, his day's work ended,   Lingers as in content,    There falls on the old, gray city     An influence luminous and serene,      A shining peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not every question that deserves an answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52762]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not every question that deserves an answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most people like is the three homemade soups every day. Chicken corn chowder, we can barely keep up with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38154]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most people like is the three homemade soups every day. Chicken corn chowder, we can barely keep up with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commissions taint the whole process, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35067]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commissions taint the whole process,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we had a chance despite what I thought was one of the most uninspiring performances by my team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we had a chance despite what I thought was one of the most uninspiring performances by my team since I've been the head coach here. But of course, the two things that have hurt us all season, turnovers and poor shooting percentage, cost us at the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighborhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighborhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed, Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes  Expanded, shine with azure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed, Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes  Expanded, shine with azure, green and gold;   How blessings brighten as they take their flight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be killed than frightened to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10521]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be killed than frightened to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57461]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7030]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat;  Found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat;  Found the one gift of which Fortune bereft us,   Lost all the others she lets us devote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui  Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5966]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64440]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feel the fear and do it anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feel the fear and do it anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far, we've had 7.36 inches (of rain) for the year. Normal is about 4.51, so we're well above it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38407]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far, we've had 7.36 inches (of rain) for the year. Normal is about 4.51, so we're well above it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A deadly echidna once bit a Cappadocian; she herself died, having tasted the Poison-flinging blood. [Lat., Vipera Cappadocem nocitura mormordit; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46866]]></link><description><![CDATA[A deadly echidna once bit a Cappadocian; she herself died, having tasted the Poison-flinging blood. [Lat., Vipera Cappadocem nocitura mormordit; at illa Gustato perit sanguine Cappadocis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are a 24-year-old man, you believe that old age begins about 55 [while] if you are a 62-year-old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33712]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are a 24-year-old man, you believe that old age begins about 55 [while] if you are a 62-year-old woman, you think youth doesn't end until 57.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17910]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not Zionists but Zinnists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4939]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not Zionists but Zinnists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43795]]></link><description><![CDATA[See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43795</guid></item></channel></rss>