<?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[Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13580]]></link><description><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real secret to success is enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real secret to success is enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is ample precedent for the Security Council to take up the human rights and political situation in a country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30402]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is ample precedent for the Security Council to take up the human rights and political situation in a country with as horrific a record as Burma, especially when suffering spills across borders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.  .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the miraclous gifts were so soon withdrawn was not only that faith and holiness were well-nigh lost, but that dry, formal, orthodox men began then to ridicule whatever gifts they had not themselves and to cry them all [down] as evil madness or imposture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pizza is a lot like sex. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pizza is a lot like sex. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64941]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prices all of us pay for insurance in 2002 may be a little higher. Prices were already firming up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prices all of us pay for insurance in 2002 may be a little higher. Prices were already firming up because insurers' investment returns had been decreasing, and auto and property loss had increased. But this is going to accelerate that process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He believed the secrecy stamp was something that was improperly used. And I suspect he would think this was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39969]]></link><description><![CDATA[He believed the secrecy stamp was something that was improperly used. And I suspect he would think this was a continuing abuse of the secrecy stamp to try to remove embarrassing documents from the public eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49123]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting for peace is like having sex for virginity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting for peace is like having sex for virginity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order for rapid population growth to matter, a nation must steadily create good, decent- paying jobs to benefit from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36687]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order for rapid population growth to matter, a nation must steadily create good, decent- paying jobs to benefit from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58502]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been in this business for years, and this has been the hardest three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been in this business for years, and this has been the hardest three days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30065]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping the reconciliation bill does go away. It's becoming very controversial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29405]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping the reconciliation bill does go away. It's becoming very controversial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20996]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've forced the other team to hit to beat us. We've forced them to put the ball in play and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36127]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've forced the other team to hit to beat us. We've forced them to put the ball in play and we've made the plays behind them -- and that's something we didn't do last year. We didn't play good defense behind our pitching and we walked too many guys and we've cleaned up those areas. It's really been a difference for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44438]]></link><description><![CDATA[George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . . Should the General raise his left hand as he has raised his right, it would point to a quarter of the city that forms a haven for the oppressed and suppressed of foreign lands. In the cause of national or personal freedom they have found refuge here, and the patriot who made it for them sits his steed, overlooking their district, while he listens through his left ear to vaudeville that caricatures the posterity of the proteges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The four seniors really organized things. I've seen it occasionally, but usually not everybody. For all seven of them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The four seniors really organized things. I've seen it occasionally, but usually not everybody. For all seven of them to show up in great shape, that's a really big plus for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day  How the clicking of its wheel   Wears the hours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day  How the clicking of its wheel   Wears the hours away!    Languidly the Autumn wind     Stirs the forest leaves,      From the field the reapers sing       Binding up their sheaves:        And a proverb haunts my mind         As a spell is cast,          "The mill cannot grind           With the water that is past."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64705]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no containment on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41151]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no containment on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our best thoughts come from others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our best thoughts come from others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24363]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18850]]></link><description><![CDATA[High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less. [Fr., Cela est beau, et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48014]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less. [Fr., Cela est beau, et je vous louerais davantage si vous m'aviez loue moins.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives to us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35516]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives to us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither rhyme nor reason. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither rhyme nor reason. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55010</guid></item></channel></rss>