<?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[The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58892]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we do here also affects the county -- and vice versa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37738]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we do here also affects the county -- and vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54773]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs are fine in the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs are fine in the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors To find out thet it looks like rain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors To find out thet it looks like rain arter it fairly pours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd  A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56611]]></link><description><![CDATA[How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd  A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain   Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams.    His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve     In soft repose; on him the balmy dews      Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the town of New Haven, The home of the truth and the light,  Where God speaks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the town of New Haven, The home of the truth and the light,  Where God speaks to Jones,   In the very same tones,    That he uses with Hadley and Dwight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13998]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important office ... that of private citizen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important office ... that of private citizen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You mean the producer is the guy who was telling me, 'Move along, sir, three feet from the rail?' ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32911]]></link><description><![CDATA[You mean the producer is the guy who was telling me, 'Move along, sir, three feet from the rail?' ... I want someone with musical experience to tell me that I (stink).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole team looks good and we didn't give them any chances, O'Connor and Murray were our best players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole team looks good and we didn't give them any chances, O'Connor and Murray were our best players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quite recent times we seem to have entered a particularly dangerous new phase of anthropological aberration, namely, a queer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6644]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quite recent times we seem to have entered a particularly dangerous new phase of anthropological aberration, namely, a queer combination of nihilism and deification. Theoretically, man is said to be nothing but an animal with a highly developed cerebrum. At the same time, it is believed of this man that he is capable by science and technical devices of achieving whatever he wants. The deification which might have been thought to be finally overcome, returns as it were from behind, in the form of a deification of technical creativity to which not much less than omnipotence is ascribed. After mankind has done away with the pseudo-religion of race and blood, it is faced with the even greater danger of a technocratical pseudo-religion. There is no room for human personality, freedom and justice in either of these new religions of divine man. But the most dangerous of all must be the one which makes man at the same time nothing and God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty. [Fr., Il n'y a que le premier obstacle qui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3947]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty. [Fr., Il n'y a que le premier obstacle qui coute a vaincre la pudeur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13857]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8086]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find courage to accept thy good gifts, that the sorrowful may find courage to accept thy perfect gifts. For to men there is a difference of joy and of sorrow, but for thee, O Lord, there is no difference in these things; everything that comes from thee is a good and perfect gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins,  Pity and woe! for such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins,  Pity and woe! for such a mind   Is soft contemplative, and kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You guys line up alphabetically by height. (a Florida State football coach) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57557]]></link><description><![CDATA[You guys line up alphabetically by height. (a Florida State football coach)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4465]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Randall's a good guy, and the governor looks forward to working with him in his role as speaker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Randall's a good guy, and the governor looks forward to working with him in his role as speaker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is the art of concealing your sources ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is the art of concealing your sources]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62258]]></link><description><![CDATA[You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Why not, why not, why not." "Why not?" and "Yeah." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24133]]></link><description><![CDATA["Why not, why not, why not." "Why not?" and "Yeah."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bully is a coward turned inside out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10372]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bully is a coward turned inside out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm 27. Everybody knows when you get around 30, 30-plus, you start to depreciate. I wanted to have that security ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm 27. Everybody knows when you get around 30, 30-plus, you start to depreciate. I wanted to have that security of knowing I would be in the same place for the next three or four years or the next five or six years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more vulgar than haste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more vulgar than haste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not 'why.' It's 'What do we do now; How do we get through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33209]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not 'why.' It's 'What do we do now; How do we get through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one use of the Bible is to make us look at Jesus, that through Him we might know His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one use of the Bible is to make us look at Jesus, that through Him we might know His Father and our Father, His God and our God. Till we thus know Him, let us hold the Bible dear as the moon of our darkness, by which we travel toward the east; not dear as the sun whence her light cometh, and towards which we haste, that, walking in the sun himself, we may no more need the mirror that reflected his absent brightness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21890]]></link><description><![CDATA[My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58694]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message  An host ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message  An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell   Themselves when they be felt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53603]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60521]]></link><description><![CDATA[If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45292]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the trees were old and sick. They weren't made to resist winds like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the trees were old and sick. They weren't made to resist winds like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22140]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22140</guid></item></channel></rss>