<?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[When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43844]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want either an apology or some kind of explanation as to why they chose to do the cartoons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28521]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want either an apology or some kind of explanation as to why they chose to do the cartoons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15730]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25193]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened. -Robert C. Murphy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old men need applause too ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old men need applause too]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really, really great to be back. So let's get up there, show them what it's all about. Let's get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really, really great to be back. So let's get up there, show them what it's all about. Let's get back, let's retake the CBC, make it what it can be - a great public broadcaster for all Canadians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not routine, but it's pretty close to it. He should be as good as new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35903]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not routine, but it's pretty close to it. He should be as good as new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there are times when patience proves at fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45712]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there are times when patience proves at fault.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never had the dollars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31220]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never had the dollars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bureau of Land Management has essentially become the bureau of oil and gas development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bureau of Land Management has essentially become the bureau of oil and gas development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, I turn 17 next year . I can drive next week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35183]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, I turn 17 next year . I can drive next week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we do not understand we do not possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47782]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we do not understand we do not possess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42939]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man has a lesbian daughter, yet he wants to make gays and lesbians second-class citizens in the U.S. Constitution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man has a lesbian daughter, yet he wants to make gays and lesbians second-class citizens in the U.S. Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22255]]></link><description><![CDATA[My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization and profit go hand in hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization and profit go hand in hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble theirfood, and tyrannize their teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble theirfood, and tyrannize their teachers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Irresponsible spending is the scandal of Christian America, in the face ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Irresponsible spending is the scandal of Christian America, in the face of the world's need. The American standard of living has risen to unprecedented heights, although a large portion of the world exists on a sub-human level. Philanthropy, as we practice it, is not enough --- although the word philanthropy actually means brotherhood. Our stewardship of God's goods requires that we administer in God's name -- that is, with full awareness that the world is His and that His love is directed toward us no more fully than toward every man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9378]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't feel much pressure today. I got here, and that was an accomplishment. I got to take some great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't feel much pressure today. I got here, and that was an accomplishment. I got to take some great runs with my friends. It was great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a fair house, built on another man's ground. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a fair house, built on another man's ground. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just hope that teams realize my foot injury really hampered me. Playing in the SEC, you've got to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33492]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just hope that teams realize my foot injury really hampered me. Playing in the SEC, you've got to be fast -- and I'm faster than 4.5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's going to be an awesome experience to serve people. Most people in college think spring break is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31593]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's going to be an awesome experience to serve people. Most people in college think spring break is going down to the beach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bright the sunshine dances in its joy, O'er the still flow of this majestic river! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54334]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bright the sunshine dances in its joy, O'er the still flow of this majestic river!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around your skin, I tie and untie mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Around your skin, I tie and untie mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66063]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and the Treasury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and the Treasury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our pitchers were missing spots. When you miss spots against a team like that, they make you pay. It unraveled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our pitchers were missing spots. When you miss spots against a team like that, they make you pay. It unraveled from there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purpose is what gives life a meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purpose is what gives life a meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52607</guid></item></channel></rss>