<?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['Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider  Their passions, and are dext'rous; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4899]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider  Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features   Are brought up, others by a warlike leader;    Some by a place--as tend their years or natures;     The most by ready cash--but all have prices,      From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We actually started having meetings yesterday morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35294]]></link><description><![CDATA[We actually started having meetings yesterday morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only predict things after they have happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64199]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only predict things after they have happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbeing dead isn't being alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbeing dead isn't being alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3683]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61325]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very important that they keep us thinking and keep us learning. That's the point of a university. Marquette is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32167]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very important that they keep us thinking and keep us learning. That's the point of a university. Marquette is trying to do that within a Catholic context.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In nothing do men so much resemble the gods as in giving help to their fellow creatures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48843]]></link><description><![CDATA[In nothing do men so much resemble the gods as in giving help to their fellow creatures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The president's most solemn responsibility is to protect the American people. He is committed to doing everything in his lawful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33036]]></link><description><![CDATA[The president's most solemn responsibility is to protect the American people. He is committed to doing everything in his lawful power to prevent attack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think INXS wants to see a darker side of me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42727]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think INXS wants to see a darker side of me,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work under our labour grows Luxurious by restraint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62136]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work under our labour grows Luxurious by restraint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the Suncoast will have minimal impact on the locals market. The market grows fast enough to more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the Suncoast will have minimal impact on the locals market. The market grows fast enough to more than make up for increases in casino supply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the days of His earthly ministry, only those could speak to him who came where He was: if He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7588]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the days of His earthly ministry, only those could speak to him who came where He was: if He was in Galilee, men could not find Him in Jerusalem; if He was in Jerusalem, men could not find Him in Galilee. His Ascension means that He is perfectly united with God; we are with Him wherever we are present to God; and that is everywhere and always. Because He is "in Heaven" He is everywhere on earth: because He is ascended, He is here now. Our devotion is not to hold us by the empty tomb; it must lift up our hearts to heaven so that we too "in heart and mind thither ascend and with Him continually dwell": it must also send us forth into the world to do His will; and these are not two things, but one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with  A pudency so rosy, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with  A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't   Might well have warmed old Saturn--that I thought her    As chaste as unsunned snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1453</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[I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52886]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes I know of James Clerk Maxwell, ... And I have used his equations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes I know of James Clerk Maxwell, ... And I have used his equations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone,  A woman, of her gentle sex   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone,  A woman, of her gentle sex   The seeming paragon;    To whom the better elements     And kindly stars have given      A form so fair that, like the air,       'Tis less of earth than heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They could bring the weapon today inside a cargo container that comes to one of our ports, and the technologies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35958]]></link><description><![CDATA[They could bring the weapon today inside a cargo container that comes to one of our ports, and the technologies that we have deployed would have a low chance of finding it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like her because she smiles at me and means it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like her because she smiles at me and means it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However human, envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52012]]></link><description><![CDATA[However human, envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions for the preservation of such a society that we do not countenance envy, not sanction its demands by camouflaging it as social justice, but treat it, in the words of John Stuart Mill, as "the most anti-social and evil of all passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we'll do anything differently. We'll try to put a lot of pressure on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we'll do anything differently. We'll try to put a lot of pressure on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35583]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world goes whispering to its own, "This anguish pierces to the bone;"  And tender friends go sighing round, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world goes whispering to its own, "This anguish pierces to the bone;"  And tender friends go sighing round,   "What love can ever cure this wound?"    My days go on, my days go on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we are right, make us easy to live with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wake Forest is honored to once again host the NCAA Championships. I believe our staff at Wake Forest puts on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wake Forest is honored to once again host the NCAA Championships. I believe our staff at Wake Forest puts on a first class presentation that all four teams will enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In climes beyond the solar road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58290]]></link><description><![CDATA[In climes beyond the solar road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59432]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cowslips tall her pensioners be. In their gold coats spots you see:  Those be rubies, fairy favors;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cowslips tall her pensioners be. In their gold coats spots you see:  Those be rubies, fairy favors;   In those freckles live their savors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When any volume of this blend comes in contact with one-half of 1 percent (of its own volume) of water, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When any volume of this blend comes in contact with one-half of 1 percent (of its own volume) of water, a condition called 'phase separation' occurs. For 10,000 gallons (of blend), that's 50 gallons of water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't test courage cautiously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10318]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't test courage cautiously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16958]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Synods are mystical Bear-gardens. Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens,  And other Members of the Court,   Manage the Babylonish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Synods are mystical Bear-gardens. Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens,  And other Members of the Court,   Manage the Babylonish sport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary; but wherever they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary; but wherever they do liberate an individual's judgement and confidence we can be sure that we are in the presence of exceptional ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes no sense to be second in someone's life, when you know you're good enough to be first in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63315]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes no sense to be second in someone's life, when you know you're good enough to be first in someone else's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16190]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we learn with pleasure we never forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26963]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we learn with pleasure we never forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV commercials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50906]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3414]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45371</guid></item></channel></rss>