<?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[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60054]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything we do in emergency services is a calculated risk, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything we do in emergency services is a calculated risk,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is actually patronized by the social order as a means of stabilizing and perpetuating the existing system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53680]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is actually patronized by the social order as a means of stabilizing and perpetuating the existing system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Adam's fall-- We sinned all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56390]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Adam's fall-- We sinned all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must be sacrificed now and again To provide for the next generation of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54606]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must be sacrificed now and again To provide for the next generation of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY Thou hast not made, or taught me, Lord, to care For times and seasons -- but this one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8209]]></link><description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY Thou hast not made, or taught me, Lord, to care For times and seasons -- but this one glad day Is the blue sapphire clasping all the lights That flash in the girdle of the year so fair When thou wast born a man -- because alway  Thou wast and art a man through all the flights  Of thought, and time, and thousandfold creation's play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that lookes not before, finds himselfe behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that lookes not before, finds himselfe behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Washington hath left His awful memory,  A light for after times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61254]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Washington hath left His awful memory,  A light for after times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upon closer inspection many of the allegedly negative implications of rising international trade and investment for jobs, wages and living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upon closer inspection many of the allegedly negative implications of rising international trade and investment for jobs, wages and living standards are belied by the evidence,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35792]]></link><description><![CDATA[I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1778</guid></item><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[Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58773]]></link><description><![CDATA[No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure--critics all are ready made.  Take hackney'd jokes from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10728]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure--critics all are ready made.  Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote,   With just enough of learning to misquote;    A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault;     A turn for punning, call it Attic salt;      To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet,       His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet;        Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit;         Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit;          Care not for feeling--pass your proper jest,           And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28033]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not ent]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, when the establishment seeks to preserve the status quo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It appears we will have a balanced budget with no [fare] increase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41710]]></link><description><![CDATA[It appears we will have a balanced budget with no [fare] increase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1992 and 1993, people thought I was crazy. Then, all my predictions started coming true, and I realized I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36671]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 1992 and 1993, people thought I was crazy. Then, all my predictions started coming true, and I realized I had better get the book out before people said I was just reporting the news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57346]]></link><description><![CDATA[His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22990]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. Atother times a parallel Dream appears. The one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21468]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. Atother times a parallel Dream appears. The one that scares the hell out ofyou is probably it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NSA is guilty of buying a bill of goods from contractors without checking to see if it is feasible. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42190]]></link><description><![CDATA[NSA is guilty of buying a bill of goods from contractors without checking to see if it is feasible. The contractors are guilty of promising the moon and not delivering. And Congress is guilty for failing to oversee it from beginning to end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows. [Ger., Der Sturm ist Meister; Wind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57903]]></link><description><![CDATA[The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows. [Ger., Der Sturm ist Meister; Wind und Well spielen  Ball mit dem Menschen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, the opponents of this project have lost in the court of public opinion. So they've gone behind closed doors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, the opponents of this project have lost in the court of public opinion. So they've gone behind closed doors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties exist to be surmounted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties exist to be surmounted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and financial opportunities. Other high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1196]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and financial opportunities. Other high stakes will be missed by people if they don't master and connect information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength ofcharacter, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinalfortitude. They are mandatory for anyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength ofcharacter, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinalfortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay atthe top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's my wee-one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36884]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's my wee-one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47605]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse. The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our guys decided at halftime we weren't going to let this game get away. That's what it amounted to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our guys decided at halftime we weren't going to let this game get away. That's what it amounted to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30663</guid></item></channel></rss>