<?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[Historians say this will lead to civil conflict. It doesn't lead to girls being treasured. It leads to them being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians say this will lead to civil conflict. It doesn't lead to girls being treasured. It leads to them being traded as commodities and stolen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That rich celestial music thrilled the air From hosts on hosts shining ones, who thronged  Eastward and westward, making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43426]]></link><description><![CDATA[That rich celestial music thrilled the air From hosts on hosts shining ones, who thronged  Eastward and westward, making bright the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV. We need to give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The study validates what parents know intuitively: Well, duh, yes, there is more sex on TV. We need to give parents better tools. With 200 channels, I feel out of control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Supply-and-demand, -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Supply-and-demand, -- alas! For what noble work was there ever yet any audible demand in that poor sense? The man of Macedonia, speaking in vision to the Apostle Paul, "Come over and help us", did not specify what rate of wages he would give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is the discovery that something is possible ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is the discovery that something is possible]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20191]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our bats stayed alive today and we got the little hits when we needed them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our bats stayed alive today and we got the little hits when we needed them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beggars must be no choosers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beggars must be no choosers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's general. What should we fear? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51321]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's general. What should we fear?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a communion with God that asks for nothing, yet asks for everything... He who seeks the Father more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8172]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a communion with God that asks for nothing, yet asks for everything... He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44925]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66732]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53346]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63831]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time cuts down all, Both great and small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time cuts down all, Both great and small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is simply to request equal treatment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37615]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is simply to request equal treatment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As our cooperation with the IAEA is on the right track, I believe the report will be positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35723]]></link><description><![CDATA[As our cooperation with the IAEA is on the right track, I believe the report will be positive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no question that clean, affordable drinking water is essential to the health of our global community. But bottled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34507]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no question that clean, affordable drinking water is essential to the health of our global community. But bottled water is not the answer in the developed world, nor does it solve problems for the 1.1 billion people who lack a secure water supply. Improving and expanding existing water treatment and sanitation systems is more likely to provide safe and sustainable sources of water over the long term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is past is prologue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64244]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is past is prologue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. -The Merry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55343]]></link><description><![CDATA[All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13711]]></link><description><![CDATA[False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The fifth Puerto Rican to play in the NBA, Arroyo, 24, had an excused absence on the third day of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31051]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The fifth Puerto Rican to play in the NBA, Arroyo, 24, had an excused absence on the third day of training camp so he could attend a reception in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month held at the WhiteÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â House. The highlight came when President Bush thanked Arroyo for attending.] Honestly, ... I was sort of surprised he knew my name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26648]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . .  To that dry drudgery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . .  To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . .   Sabbathless Satan!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52170]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite...You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody could believe that somebody would steal pocket change and break into the library to do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody could believe that somebody would steal pocket change and break into the library to do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64348]]></link><description><![CDATA[For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55157]]></link><description><![CDATA[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47175]]></link><description><![CDATA[No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23944]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28111]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matter and energy moves itself. It has no exterior mover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matter and energy moves itself. It has no exterior mover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When love came first to earth, the Spring Spread rose-beds to receive him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54436]]></link><description><![CDATA[When love came first to earth, the Spring Spread rose-beds to receive him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wonder why we're electing Democrats and Republicans who seem to be more extreme than the average Democrat or Republican, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wonder why we're electing Democrats and Republicans who seem to be more extreme than the average Democrat or Republican, and when they get to the statehouse, they don't seem to talk to one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. [It., Tu proverai si come sa di sale  Lo pane altrui, e com e duro calle   Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50181</guid></item></channel></rss>