<?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[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to site thn it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60591]]></link><description><![CDATA[We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/148]]></link><description><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16150]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because, you know what your hours are going to be and they also have periods of time off within the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because, you know what your hours are going to be and they also have periods of time off within the season, that you just don't get on an hour show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animis opibusque parati [Prepared in mind and resources] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animis opibusque parati [Prepared in mind and resources]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9395]]></link><description><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. -Patrick Blackett.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65520]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that day's feats, When he might act the woman in the scene,  He prov'd best man i' th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57948]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that day's feats, When he might act the woman in the scene,  He prov'd best man i' th' field, and for his meed   Was brow-bound with the oak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think the car could have been pretty competitive with a trouble-free race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to find your perfect match is to meet love halfway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to find your perfect match is to meet love halfway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told [GM] Roland Hemond to go out and get me a big name pitcher. He said, 'Dave Wehrmeister's got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told [GM] Roland Hemond to go out and get me a big name pitcher. He said, 'Dave Wehrmeister's got 11 letters. Is that a big enough name for you ?' (White Sox owner)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. -General Omar Bradley.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50900]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963 Thanksgiving (U.S.)   One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963 Thanksgiving (U.S.)   One man may be so placed that his anger sheds the blood of thousands, and another so placed that, however angry he gets, he will only be laughed at. But the little mark on the soul may be much the same in both. Each has done something to himself which, unless he repents, will make it harder for him to keep out of the rage the next time he is tempted, and will make the rage worse when he does fall into it. Each of them, if he seriously turns to God, can have that twist in the central man straightened out again: each is, in the long run, doomed if he will not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never knew what a reporter looked like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34121]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never knew what a reporter looked like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing again, with your dear voice revealing A tone  Of some world far from ours,   Where music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing again, with your dear voice revealing A tone  Of some world far from ours,   Where music and moonlight and feeling    Are one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was like a kid on Christmas morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35437]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was like a kid on Christmas morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4498]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in, or you're out. There is not such a thing as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63110]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in, or you're out. There is not such a thing as life in between.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,  Await alike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,  Await alike th' inevitable hour,   The paths of glory lead but to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9723]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2157]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There wasn't anything I could do about it. I lost three docks. I've been here 35 years, and I've never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40408]]></link><description><![CDATA[There wasn't anything I could do about it. I lost three docks. I've been here 35 years, and I've never seen devastation like this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biography is one of the new terrors of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biography is one of the new terrors of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19886]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That might be an omen that I need to leave whatever I brought from there and just start completely over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40549]]></link><description><![CDATA[That might be an omen that I need to leave whatever I brought from there and just start completely over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64414]]></link><description><![CDATA[As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66580]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teenage girls are too caught up in being with a guy who's the best for everyone else and not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teenage girls are too caught up in being with a guy who's the best for everyone else and not the best for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had Tibet not fallen away from dharmaChina could not have invaded.(in reference to violation of Buddha'sforbidding animal slaughter). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had Tibet not fallen away from dharmaChina could not have invaded.(in reference to violation of Buddha'sforbidding animal slaughter).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27571</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/41517]]></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/41517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61469]]></link><description><![CDATA["The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, ideas, predjudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, predjudices can kill and suspicion can destroy. A thoughtless, freightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all it's own for the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, is that these things can not be confined to the Twighlight Zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three women make a market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three women make a market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47098]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost  Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost  Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it was Gus, it was hard to say no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revolutionary upheavals may change how the world looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47545]]></link><description><![CDATA[All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revolutionary upheavals may change how the world looks but seldom changes the way the world works. Lasting historical change comes not through tidal waves but through the irresistible creeping tide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  Sin is a base and ill-natured thing, and renders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  Sin is a base and ill-natured thing, and renders a man not so apt to be affected with the injuries he hath offered to God as with the mischief which is likely to fall upon himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7233</guid></item></channel></rss>