<?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[To those who feel that their values are the values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47159]]></link><description><![CDATA[To those who feel that their values are the values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of any specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably did foul them a lot, but 37 attempts to 10 attempts is a fairly large disparity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31957]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably did foul them a lot, but 37 attempts to 10 attempts is a fairly large disparity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18593]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benevolence is a commitment to achieving the values derivable from life with other people in society, by treating them as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benevolence is a commitment to achieving the values derivable from life with other people in society, by treating them as potential trading partners, recognizing their humanity, independence, and individuality, and the harmony between their interests and ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am your host. With robber's hands in my hospitable favors  You should not ruffle thus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19867]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am your host. With robber's hands in my hospitable favors  You should not ruffle thus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[sends out a message both to critics and to supporters that he has the backing of America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28563]]></link><description><![CDATA[sends out a message both to critics and to supporters that he has the backing of America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,  To conquer France, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,  To conquer France, his true inheritance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5807]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18797]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have an inflatable dome. It?s almost like a multimedia theater experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33525]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have an inflatable dome. It?s almost like a multimedia theater experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are harping on the same string. [Lat., Cantilenam candem canis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9875]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are harping on the same string. [Lat., Cantilenam candem canis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the wronged party in this action, and on behalf of the 50,000 people who signed these petitions, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41998]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the wronged party in this action, and on behalf of the 50,000 people who signed these petitions, we need an answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. [Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15482]]></link><description><![CDATA[To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. [Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In dreams begins responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12879]]></link><description><![CDATA[In dreams begins responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to think, at this point, it was just a little trash fire that quickly got out of control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30549]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to think, at this point, it was just a little trash fire that quickly got out of control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16819]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes--  Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes--  Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me,   Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes:    I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame;  Ev'ything thet's done inhuman   Injers all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame;  Ev'ything thet's done inhuman   Injers all on 'em the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said there were too many incidents, but there's not enough incidents to make a drastic change in the program ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38133]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said there were too many incidents, but there's not enough incidents to make a drastic change in the program at this point in time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed inoveralls and looks like work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed inoveralls and looks like work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22821]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56506]]></link><description><![CDATA[With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to find a deeper meaning in your life, you can't find it in the opinions or the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64014]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to find a deeper meaning in your life, you can't find it in the opinions or the beliefs that have been handed to you. You have to go to that place within yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  This Christian claim [of universal validity] is naturally offensive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  This Christian claim [of universal validity] is naturally offensive to the adherents of every other religious system. It is almost as offensive to modern man, brought up in the atmosphere of relativism, in which tolerance is regarded almost as the highest of the virtues. But we must not suppose that this claim to universal validity is something that can quietly be removed from the Gospel without changing it into something entirely different from what it is... Jesus' life, his method, and his message do not make sense, unless they are interpreted in the light of his own conviction that he was in fact the final and decisive word of God to men... For the human sickness there is one specific remedy, and this is it. There is no other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condo hotel is a perfect fit for beach people. If they owned a regular condo, they would have had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30957]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condo hotel is a perfect fit for beach people. If they owned a regular condo, they would have had restrictions on how often they could rent it out. With a condo hotel, renting isn't a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18939]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He acknowledges that he does have an alcohol problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30020]]></link><description><![CDATA[He acknowledges that he does have an alcohol problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roll,  The loud winds, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roll,  The loud winds, that o'er the billows sweep--   Shake the firm nerve, appal the bravest soul!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23280]]></link><description><![CDATA[If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when they're winning? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when they're winning?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29995]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a kid sailing Optimists down in Cornwall and there was a British America's Cup challenge that was training in Falmouth,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47228]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business. - The American Character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independent presses and bookstores give access to literature specific to a place. Readers can find stories they need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Independent presses and bookstores give access to literature specific to a place. Readers can find stories they need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am myself a man, and nothing relating to men is a matter of indifference to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51740]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am myself a man, and nothing relating to men is a matter of indifference to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43882</guid></item></channel></rss>