<?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[Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27011]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44397]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember, pain makes people change. So dont hurt them when you do not want them to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember, pain makes people change. So dont hurt them when you do not want them to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we say it's time for batting practice, they say, 'Oh, let's go!' When it's time for fielding practice, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40570]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we say it's time for batting practice, they say, 'Oh, let's go!' When it's time for fielding practice, they start moaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10149]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell,  A jellyfish and a saurian,   And caves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell,  A jellyfish and a saurian,   And caves where the cavemen dwell;    Then a sense of law and beauty,     And a face turned from the clod--      Some call it Evolution,       And others call it God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is not gold that glisters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49103]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is not gold that glisters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24547]]></link><description><![CDATA[By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no substitute for guts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10427]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no substitute for guts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditionally, women have done cosmetic surgery to be competitive along beauty standards. Now men are doing that but for competition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditionally, women have done cosmetic surgery to be competitive along beauty standards. Now men are doing that but for competition in the workplace. These guys are competing along lines of status and power in a market economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the reward of my folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51749]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the reward of my folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He played awesome. You see his reflexes, on little tips in front, gloving them. He's a big-time goalie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32043]]></link><description><![CDATA[He played awesome. You see his reflexes, on little tips in front, gloving them. He's a big-time goalie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29546]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brian laughed at me in court, and said the money wasn't worth anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brian laughed at me in court, and said the money wasn't worth anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The generous heart Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The generous heart Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It occurred to me that I have spent almost every working day of the past ten years living in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31750]]></link><description><![CDATA[It occurred to me that I have spent almost every working day of the past ten years living in a state of repressed fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martha was watching the football game with me when she said, 'You know, most of these sports are based on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martha was watching the football game with me when she said, 'You know, most of these sports are based on the idea of one group protecting its territory from invasion by another group.' 'Yeah,' I said, trying not to laugh. Girls are funny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a fragrant world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56917]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a fragrant world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the realm of thought every person performs innumerable abortions each minute of the waking day ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/124]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the realm of thought every person performs innumerable abortions each minute of the waking day]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. [Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17139]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. [Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've said it all season and it's getting old. When Joe's not in there, we have to have somebody step ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38278]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've said it all season and it's getting old. When Joe's not in there, we have to have somebody step up for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43264]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody in the newspaper business has raised guidance in a long time. And let's face it, the shorts got squeezed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody in the newspaper business has raised guidance in a long time. And let's face it, the shorts got squeezed, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great would have none great and the little all little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great would have none great and the little all little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2162]]></link><description><![CDATA[One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-violence is the article of faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-violence is the article of faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The system has always worked out good in the past. Parents of the younger students appreciate the calls that their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The system has always worked out good in the past. Parents of the younger students appreciate the calls that their child is not there, and it brings attention to parents of older students that their child was absent without them knowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Ruckman Matthew Allan met Sheedy yesterday morning and the two have agreed to talk again this week. Allan, an All-Australian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33029]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Ruckman Matthew Allan met Sheedy yesterday morning and the two have agreed to talk again this week. Allan, an All-Australian and Carlton best-and-fairest winner in 1999, is believed to have told the club that he intends to retire but has been persuaded by Sheedy to reconsider.] Sheeds wanted him to stay and even James Hird spoke with him, ... They wanted him to go another year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is very midsummer madness. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55763]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is very midsummer madness. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no index of character so sure as the voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60932]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no index of character so sure as the voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35441</guid></item></channel></rss>