<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not need; they have smaller families. It's lifestyle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35891]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not need; they have smaller families. It's lifestyle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew;  And whom the curious painter doth pursue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew;  And whom the curious painter doth pursue   Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks,    And tracks thee dancing down thy water-breaks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human - but it feels divine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19942]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human - but it feels divine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17630]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42479]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you're working at McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, there's really no sex appeal to that kind of job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you're working at McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, there's really no sex appeal to that kind of job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those pigmy tribes of Panton street, Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak,  Obedient to a tyrant's yoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those pigmy tribes of Panton street, Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak,  Obedient to a tyrant's yoke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23065]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44430]]></link><description><![CDATA[It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is more important than intelligence for success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is more important than intelligence for success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48783]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22079]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,  Whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,  Whose weakness married to thy stronger state   Makes with me thy strength to communicate.    If aught possess thee from me, it is dross,     Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss;      Who all for want of pruning, with intrusion       Infect thy sap and live on thy confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never had a church but there, men say, The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,  I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8674]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never had a church but there, men say, The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,  I doubted of this saw, till on a day   I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Giles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. -Kahlil Gibran. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. -Kahlil Gibran.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   No nation, and few individuals, are really brought into [God's] camp by the historical study of the biography of Jesus, simply as biography. Indeed, materials for a full biography have been withheld from men. The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a sense of win which they already had... The "Gospels" came later and were written not to make Christians but to edify Christians already made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3411]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby andsay, "How can we screw this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby andsay, "How can we screw this kid up.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had just no power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had just no power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, before I commit a sin, it seems to me so shallow that I may wade through it dry-shod from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, before I commit a sin, it seems to me so shallow that I may wade through it dry-shod from any guiltiness; but when I have committed it, it often seems so deep that I cannot escape without drowning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not exactly convinced that this market is overly bullish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not exactly convinced that this market is overly bullish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and  The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and  The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships;   The varied and ample land,--the South    And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri,     And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.   - Walt Whitman,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been hard just getting back in the groove. I think we got in the groove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been hard just getting back in the groove. I think we got in the groove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to be taught even by an enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50737]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to be taught even by an enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18491]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has been a pretty strong presence at the company for a long time, and was obviously a big driver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33981]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has been a pretty strong presence at the company for a long time, and was obviously a big driver in the launch of Weekend Edition. The fact that she's leaving by mutual agreement indicates that the board is becoming more active, and is willing to make tougher decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32736]]></link><description><![CDATA[As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you've achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add,But when you have nothing more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9568]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you've achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add,But when you have nothing more to take away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. [Lat., Incisa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. [Lat., Incisa notis marmora publicis,  Per quae spiritus et vita redit bonis   Post mortem ducibus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9400]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58502]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58502</guid></item></channel></rss>