<?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 end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5188]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These comments have provoked significant feedback from community football leagues and umpiring associations across Australia, all reporting dismay within their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28450]]></link><description><![CDATA[These comments have provoked significant feedback from community football leagues and umpiring associations across Australia, all reporting dismay within their umpiring ranks about being able to retain numbers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24693]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.)  [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.)  [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55294]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody wanted to fight on prom night. We didn't want to risk it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody wanted to fight on prom night. We didn't want to risk it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18889]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, goes for nothing; but, be sure of it, everything is life depends upon the cock of the hat.' For how many men--we put it to your own experience, reader--have made their way through the thronging crowds that beset fortune, not by the innate worth and excellence of their hats, but simply, as Sampson Piebald has it, by 'the cock of their hats'? The cock's all."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Somebody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Somebody said to me not too long ago, 'Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve', and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43438]]></link><description><![CDATA[And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43438</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[Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Queen, who sat With lips severely placid felt the knot  Climb in her throat, and with her feet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Queen, who sat With lips severely placid felt the knot  Climb in her throat, and with her feet unseen   Crushed the wild passion out against the floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is obtained by war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is obtained by war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58741]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We consider any change in the timetable of the accords to be a violation in the essence of the agreements. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36379]]></link><description><![CDATA[We consider any change in the timetable of the accords to be a violation in the essence of the agreements. We cannot accept such talk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47067]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abilene is a good team, and they beat us. We made some mistakes, and they took advantage of them like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abilene is a good team, and they beat us. We made some mistakes, and they took advantage of them like a good team will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relief workers in New Orleans, the money they're paid is burning a hole in their pocket and they're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relief workers in New Orleans, the money they're paid is burning a hole in their pocket and they're going to spend it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. -John Foster Dulles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures;  And, therefore, I, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19133]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures;  And, therefore, I, that was an actress here,   Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; itis the spirit behind your actions and words ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; itis the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your innerstate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29467]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18932]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends. [Lat., Qui salubrem locum negligit, mente est captus atque ad agnatos et gentiles deducendus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will never be in want; if according to the fashions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51161]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will never be in want; if according to the fashions of the world you will never be rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4400]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is philosophy learned from examples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19450]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is philosophy learned from examples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14480]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60103]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have a crisis, the crisis itself becomes one of your biggest asset if that crisis is bad enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10704]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have a crisis, the crisis itself becomes one of your biggest asset if that crisis is bad enough. Everyone get very modest and humble and listens. If you need do rough things, you do rough things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10704</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[I was more convinced than ever that the preaching like an Apostle, without joining together those that are awakened and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was more convinced than ever that the preaching like an Apostle, without joining together those that are awakened and training them up in the ways of God, is only begetting children for the murderer. How much preaching has there been for these twenty years all over Pembrokeshire! But no regular societies, no discipline, no order or connection; and the consequence is, that nine in ten of the once-awakened are now faster asleep than ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're an Italian family, so that is good. She makes it very easy to be a guest in our home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30496]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're an Italian family, so that is good. She makes it very easy to be a guest in our home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901   What are our lame praises in comparison with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901   What are our lame praises in comparison with His love? Nothing, and less than nothing; but love will stammer rather than be dumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is precisely those things which belong to "the people" which have historically been despoiled- wild creatures, the air, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47190]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is precisely those things which belong to "the people" which have historically been despoiled- wild creatures, the air, and waterways being notable examples. This goes to the heart of why property rights are socially important in the first place. Property rights mean self-interested monitors. No owned creatures are in danger of extinction. No owned forests are in danger of being leveled. No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg when it is his goose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're a solid church; my family goes there, ... They're probably the most stable independent church in the area. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37578]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're a solid church; my family goes there, ... They're probably the most stable independent church in the area. I know them, and I trust them, and they're capable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43837]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52931]]></link><description><![CDATA[He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independence now: and Independence forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Independence now: and Independence forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important things in life aren't things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important things in life aren't things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were some other girls who had some fair performances, but I'm expecting better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36498]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were some other girls who had some fair performances, but I'm expecting better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's enough maturity in the offerings from Salesforce.com now that it will open up a market opportunity beyond the early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35289]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's enough maturity in the offerings from Salesforce.com now that it will open up a market opportunity beyond the early adopters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66738]]></link><description><![CDATA[My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66738</guid></item></channel></rss>