<?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 transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20821]]></link><description><![CDATA[The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational numbers is wholly disimilar to, and I might even say in priciple the same as, my method described above of introducing trasfinite numbers. One can say unconditionally: the transfinite numbers stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers; they are like each other in their innermost being; for the former like the latter are definite delimited forms or modifications of the actual infinite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14757]]></link><description><![CDATA[After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is a hero to his valet. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19225]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is a hero to his valet. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infields are dangerous. They are extremely hard last night's game showed it. They need to be replaced or somebody's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35601]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infields are dangerous. They are extremely hard last night's game showed it. They need to be replaced or somebody's going to get hurt. It's like sliding on cement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most complex things are the simplest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most complex things are the simplest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56930]]></link><description><![CDATA[No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Richard! O my king! The universe forsakes thee! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54499]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Richard! O my king! The universe forsakes thee!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The WB and ABC are taking some of their more familiar shows and moving them to Thursday just points out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30408]]></link><description><![CDATA[The WB and ABC are taking some of their more familiar shows and moving them to Thursday just points out its going to be an exceedingly competitive time period, ... and points out the popularity of Thursday night as a source of advertising revenues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. De Tocqueville in his researches into the state of society in France before the revolution was struck by the discovery that "in no one of the periods which have followed the Revolution of 1789 has the national prosperity of France augmented more rapidly than it did in the twenty years preceding that event." He is forced to conclude that "the French found their position the more intolerable the better it became.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful?  Or is the adder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23127]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful?  Or is the adder better than the eel   Because his painted skin contents the eye?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37572]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paris wrapped in night! half nebulousThe moonlight streams o'er the blue-shadowed roofs..A lovely frame for this wild battlescene Beneath the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paris wrapped in night! half nebulousThe moonlight streams o'er the blue-shadowed roofs..A lovely frame for this wild battlescene Beneath the vapor's floating scarves, the SeineTrembles, mysterious, like a magic mirrorCyrano Act 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made a decision to bring our troops home a few days early in order to spare the life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35867]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made a decision to bring our troops home a few days early in order to spare the life of Angelo. I do not regret the decision. Every life is important. Angelo's was spared and we rejoice. We're all rewarded for it, particularly his loving family and friends,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1782]]></link><description><![CDATA[If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times I think and at times I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63670]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times I think and at times I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64618]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60028]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63765]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise musicians are those who play what they can master ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise musicians are those who play what they can master]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really loved my daughter, I loved her so much. I thanked God every day I had her. She was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really loved my daughter, I loved her so much. I thanked God every day I had her. She was my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are the real architects of society. -Harriet Beecher Stowe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are the real architects of society. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8649]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A one hundred yard high tower still has its foundation on the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62822]]></link><description><![CDATA[A one hundred yard high tower still has its foundation on the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50280]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight.   - Thomas Percy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56259]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight.   - Thomas Percy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has the body-fat content of a 20-year-old sprinter, the bone structure of a public monument and the eyes... well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33115]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has the body-fat content of a 20-year-old sprinter, the bone structure of a public monument and the eyes... well, we know about the blue eyes (which happen to be colorblind).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin;  And when eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin;  And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such,   That, spider like, we feel the tenderest touch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53666]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I won't be offended if someone chooses to violate it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36730]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I won't be offended if someone chooses to violate it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's getting better every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40723]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's getting better every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3572]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love without attachment is light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love without attachment is light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[One such item was an early 1900s royal scepter of England's King Edward VII. The lot opened with a minimum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33929]]></link><description><![CDATA[[One such item was an early 1900s royal scepter of England's King Edward VII. The lot opened with a minimum of $1,000. Thirty-five bids later, it sold for $40,100.] Any time an item sells for 40 times its opening bid, you've got to give it the credit it deserves, ... This auction has gone a long way to establishing the standards for many collectibles that to this point did not have benchmarks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3779</guid></item></channel></rss>