<?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[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28144]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59035]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43476]]></link><description><![CDATA[After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kind-of circled this week, because we had never beaten Arapahoe and never beaten Ranch, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31286]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kind-of circled this week, because we had never beaten Arapahoe and never beaten Ranch,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The boat was overturned, just floating upside down in the water. All the safety gear, paddles, vests, were along the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boat was overturned, just floating upside down in the water. All the safety gear, paddles, vests, were along the shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5690]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the biggest motivator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the biggest motivator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49766]]></link><description><![CDATA[States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is the moral conscience of the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is the moral conscience of the great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modred's narrow foxy face, Heart hiding smile, and gray persistent eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modred's narrow foxy face, Heart hiding smile, and gray persistent eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in their 40s and 50s are saving for their kids and for their retirement. They have the most difficult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40726]]></link><description><![CDATA[People in their 40s and 50s are saving for their kids and for their retirement. They have the most difficult time saving because they have the most overhead expenses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who dares not (reason), is a slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46281]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who dares not (reason), is a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43603]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting has been very useful to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting has been very useful to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4276]]></link><description><![CDATA[My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries,  As motion and long-during action tires   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries,  As motion and long-during action tires   The sinewy vigor of the traveller.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21339]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to exemplify values than teach them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5873]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very happy with the document that the seven states have agreed on, and we're optimistic that the Department of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40443]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very happy with the document that the seven states have agreed on, and we're optimistic that the Department of Interior will adopt the states' position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him. (That is: he has hay on his horns, showing he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51976]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him. (That is: he has hay on his horns, showing he is dangerous.) [Lat., Faenum habet in cornu, longe fuge.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26899]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Beryl Coronet".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9162]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3590]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10683]]></link><description><![CDATA[And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale, And in the distant ray what glimmering sail  Bends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56193]]></link><description><![CDATA[But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale, And in the distant ray what glimmering sail  Bends to the storm?--Now sinks the note of fear!   Ah! wretched mariners!--no more shall day    Unclose his cheering eye to light ye on your way!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mohammed is all about the team, Mohammed is all about doing whatever it takes to win. He just demonstrates that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mohammed is all about the team, Mohammed is all about doing whatever it takes to win. He just demonstrates that day in and day out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole family is packed into one trap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50509]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole family is packed into one trap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6114]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign. - Essays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Church isn’t where you meet. Church isn’t a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Church isn’t where you meet. Church isn’t a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shows that we build, when we should but entomb us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shows that we build, when we should but entomb us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil,  And Fear her danger; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil,  And Fear her danger; opens a new world   When this, the present, palls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61675</guid></item></channel></rss>