<?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[Satisfy a few to please many is bad. [Ger., Mach' es Wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satisfy a few to please many is bad. [Ger., Mach' es Wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54730</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[Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871   Knowing God is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871   Knowing God is more than knowing about Him; it is a matter of dealing with Him as He opens up to you, and being dealt with by Him as He takes knowledge of you. Knowing about Him is a necessary precondition of trusting in Him, but the width of our knowledge about Him is no gauge of our knowledge of Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the lily. For the flowers have great virtues for all senses. For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary. For the flowers have their angels even the words of God's creation. For there is a language of flowers. For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66430]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head,  And learning wiser grow without his books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head,  And learning wiser grow without his books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60295]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64475]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48430]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would infer from the statement that the Fed is somewhat more sanguine on the economic recovery. Perhaps they believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36835]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would infer from the statement that the Fed is somewhat more sanguine on the economic recovery. Perhaps they believe that $55 oil prices are, at least for the time being, something of the past and that jobs are just improving at a moderate pace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[April can be a violent month. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30688]]></link><description><![CDATA[April can be a violent month.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he did a super job. He left the program in much better shape than when he took over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32231]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he did a super job. He left the program in much better shape than when he took over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to give people something to dream on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64459]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to give people something to dream on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would 't were bedtime, Hal, and all well. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would 't were bedtime, Hal, and all well. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world\'s most famous and popular language is music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world\'s most famous and popular language is music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need certainly to take all the steps we can take to make sure the elections will not be derailed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37522]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need certainly to take all the steps we can take to make sure the elections will not be derailed by the violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home,  And call the cattle home,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54323]]></link><description><![CDATA["O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home,  And call the cattle home,   Across the sands o' Dee;"    The western wind was wild and dank wi' foam     And all alone went she.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,  Mildly and soft the western breeze   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58272]]></link><description><![CDATA[The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,  Mildly and soft the western breeze   Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees,    And the pleased lake, like maiden coy,     Trembled but dimpled not for joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it's all said and done we will lose a piece to a carnivorous vegetarian ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60452]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it's all said and done we will lose a piece to a carnivorous vegetarian]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44792]]></link><description><![CDATA[He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21900]]></link><description><![CDATA[If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66242]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the facility, they have more grass at Bowie because we're land-locked over here. There's more room in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30356]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the facility, they have more grass at Bowie because we're land-locked over here. There's more room in the two portables over there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan "Adoption, not abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan "Adoption, not abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not condone the violence which has erupted in many Muslim countries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34337]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not condone the violence which has erupted in many Muslim countries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51718]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23120]]></link><description><![CDATA[And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14214]]></link><description><![CDATA[With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not roommates, but we room next to each other and we know we've got to do this together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32253]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not roommates, but we room next to each other and we know we've got to do this together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.  The French ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5020]]></link><description><![CDATA[In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.  The French are with equal advantage content--   So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61012]]></link><description><![CDATA[If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may ;consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relaxation should at times be given to the mind, the better to fit it for toil when resumed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relaxation should at times be given to the mind, the better to fit it for toil when resumed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50844</guid></item></channel></rss>