<?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 best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60869]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the word gets out that Dean isn't liberal - and in fact is quite conservative - on fiscal issues, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39020]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the word gets out that Dean isn't liberal - and in fact is quite conservative - on fiscal issues, he'll pick up more McCain support. On fiscal issues, he's far to the right of Ted Kennedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8952]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice: the smallest current coin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice: the smallest current coin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was gratuitously insulting 50 million Americans who call themselves Republicans, some of whom we hope will vote Democrat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33258]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was gratuitously insulting 50 million Americans who call themselves Republicans, some of whom we hope will vote Democrat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34993]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is only by fidelity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit... No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/221]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11694]]></link><description><![CDATA[A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they say, the name of God may be on it. Though there was a little superstition in this, yet truly there is nothing but good religion in it, if we apply it to men. Trample not on any; there may be some work of grace there, that thou knowest not of. The name of God may be written upon that soul thou treadest on; it may be a soul that Christ thought so much of, as to give His precious blood for it; therefore despise it not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plus, you'll have higher metal exports because of rising metal prices around the world, driven by Chinese growth ... and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plus, you'll have higher metal exports because of rising metal prices around the world, driven by Chinese growth ... and by the reconstruction of (typhoon affected) areas in the US.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13463]]></link><description><![CDATA[To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has always had more force than education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has always had more force than education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads  At going out, we think, and enter straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads  At going out, we think, and enter straight   Another golden chamber of the king's    Larger than this we leave, and lovelier.     And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect,      The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves.       The will of God is all in all. He makes,        Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch  The other turns to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57925]]></link><description><![CDATA[His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch  The other turns to a mirth-moving jest,   Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor,    Delivers in such apt and gracious words,     That aged ears play truant at his tales,      And younger hearings are quite ravished,       So sweet and voluble is his discourse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43849]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11448]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60819]]></link><description><![CDATA[That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1757]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The racecourse is as level as a billiard ball ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The racecourse is as level as a billiard ball]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60949]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. -Nora Roberts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   All angels, all saints, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   All angels, all saints, all the devils, all the world shall know all the deeds that ever thou didest, though thou have been shriven of them and contrite. But this knowledge shall be no shame to thee if that thou be saved, but rather a witness to God -- right as we read of the deeds of Mary Magdalene [as] her witness to God and not to her reproof.   ... Middle English Sermons  July 20, 2002 Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566   Our union with God -- his presence with us, in which our aloneness is banished and the meaning and full purpose of human existence is realized -- consists chiefly in a conversational relationship with God while we are each consistently and deeply engaged as his friend and colaborer in the affairs of the kingdom of the heavens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10614]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We persevered today. We should be successful here on our home course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30885]]></link><description><![CDATA[We persevered today. We should be successful here on our home course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva, into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And New York needs no explanation. I mean, if you come from Sandusky, Ohio or West New York, New Jersey, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37333]]></link><description><![CDATA[And New York needs no explanation. I mean, if you come from Sandusky, Ohio or West New York, New Jersey, you have to start explaining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the negative perception is the cost of doing business the way they're doing business, ... They're marketing hype. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the negative perception is the cost of doing business the way they're doing business, ... They're marketing hype. They're selling the belief that their drug is superior, but they're not marketing superior drugs. If they want to improve the public's perception of their work, then they better improve their work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, African-Americans, need to be more conscious of Africa. Africa will not get out of its economic hole until African-Americans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36322]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, African-Americans, need to be more conscious of Africa. Africa will not get out of its economic hole until African-Americans start working with Africa. We've got the money. We need to go back home to our people and free them from their misery and suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10955]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is grist that comes to the mill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50966]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is grist that comes to the mill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50966</guid></item></channel></rss>