<?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[We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10900]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9524]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The (penalty kill) has been doing a great job all year. It's something we want to improve down the stretch ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The (penalty kill) has been doing a great job all year. It's something we want to improve down the stretch and it gives us confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56916]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist  [Eternal life is] naught else than that blessed regard wherewith Thou never ceasest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist  [Eternal life is] naught else than that blessed regard wherewith Thou never ceasest to behold me, yea, even the secret places of my soul. With Thee, to behold is to give life: It is unceasingly to impart sweetest love of Thee; 'tis to inflame me to love of Thee by love's imparting, and to feed me by inflaming, and by feeding to kindle my yearning, and by kindling to make me drink of the dew of gladness, and by drinking to infuse in me a fountain of life, and by infusing to make it increase and endure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost;  When character is lost, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25578]]></link><description><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost;  When character is lost, all is lost!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our ships were British oak, And hearts of oak our men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our ships were British oak, And hearts of oak our men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24308]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I assumed there would be an influx of women on the podium, but there are not many more at my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41632]]></link><description><![CDATA[I assumed there would be an influx of women on the podium, but there are not many more at my level than there were 20 years ago. Maybe boards don't want to hire women because they don't meet the archetypal image of the maestro.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called  The beacon of the wise, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called  The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches   To th' bottom of the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just stood there and watched it burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just stood there and watched it burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882  As St. Cyprian well said, we may judge how ready He is to give us those good things which He Himself solicits us to ask of Him. Let us pray then with faith, and not lose the fruits of our prayers by a wavering uncertainty which, as St. James testifies, hinders the success of them. The same apostle advises us to pray when we are in trouble because thereby we should find consolation; yet we are so wretched that this heavenly employment is often a burden instead of a comfort to us. The lukewarmness of our prayers is the source of all our other infidelities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27390]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus.  Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the margin, it's not helpful to the stock-price performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32882]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the margin, it's not helpful to the stock-price performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the virtue of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the virtue of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I performed at during those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I performed at during those first tumultuous years of the armistice between World War I and World War II. The reason is very simple: I was armed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We saw something starting to happen with the industry and we called them out on it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We saw something starting to happen with the industry and we called them out on it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 22 states parents can’t take kids fishing and eat the fish if they’re lucky enough to catch anything because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20782]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 22 states parents can’t take kids fishing and eat the fish if they’re lucky enough to catch anything because of mercury. Think about that. In 44% of all river bodies and streams it’s not safe to fish or swim. And yet industrial polluters continue to block legislation that would prevent mercury and MTBE from polluting our water supplies and leaving children with debilitating diseases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really don't believe there's a lot of people that have heard of me. In the past few seasons, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29722]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really don't believe there's a lot of people that have heard of me. In the past few seasons, we haven't been doing too well, but I'm pretty confident that as the season goes on, people will be looking me up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must get a thing before he can forget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16472]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must get a thing before he can forget it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32117]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Eternity) a moment standing still for ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14204]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some hoisted out the boats, and there was one That begged Pedrillo for an absolution  Who told him to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some hoisted out the boats, and there was one That begged Pedrillo for an absolution  Who told him to be damn'd,--in his confusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47974]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43905]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's just a little over an inch above normal. It's not spectacular but it's enough to make a difference here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37825]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's just a little over an inch above normal. It's not spectacular but it's enough to make a difference here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It came down really to a question of logistics. Having our coach and our training facility here in Michigan, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It came down really to a question of logistics. Having our coach and our training facility here in Michigan, this just made much more sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that it's important for the college environment and for the students to be exposed to the issues and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that it's important for the college environment and for the students to be exposed to the issues and opportunities the world has to offer. We could all stand to be educated and learn about different cultures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . .  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2656]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . .  The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,   The answer is blowin' in the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61778]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19448</guid></item></channel></rss>