<?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[Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die rich? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die rich?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Cleveland Indians'Wahoo is racistare not also Boston Celtics?naming a team for only partof the city? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19684]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Cleveland Indians'Wahoo is racistare not also Boston Celtics?naming a team for only partof the city?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20240]]></link><description><![CDATA[How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2454]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, "What if?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is an African who dreams up snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is an African who dreams up snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52030]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. His self-assertive tendency is the dynamic manifestation of his unique wholeness, his autonomy and independence as a holon. Its equally universal antagonist, the integrative tendency, expresses his dependence on the larger whole to which he belongs: his 'part-ness.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44069]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46942]]></link><description><![CDATA[You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4465]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  It frequently happens that the value of a thing lies in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  It frequently happens that the value of a thing lies in the fact that someone has possessed it. A very ordinary thing acquires a new value, if it has been possessed by some famous person. In any museum we will find quite ordinary things--clothes, a walking-stick, a pen, pieces of furniture--which are only of value because they were possessed and used by some great person. It is the ownership which gives them worth. It is so with the Christian. The Christian may be a very ordinary person, but he acquires a new value and dignity and greatness because he belongs to God. The greatness of the Christian lies in the fact that he is God's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receivinganything in return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receivinganything in return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61392]]></link><description><![CDATA[For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27102]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are only trying to protect our investments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32606]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are only trying to protect our investments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24766]]></link><description><![CDATA[All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64332]]></link><description><![CDATA[A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The popularity comes from the fact that these radio stations play a real broad catalog of music, so they aren't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28904]]></link><description><![CDATA[The popularity comes from the fact that these radio stations play a real broad catalog of music, so they aren't as repetitive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has his price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has his price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/408]]></link><description><![CDATA[My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like wind. When it blows, it washes everything away, so clutch onto what you are holding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like wind. When it blows, it washes everything away, so clutch onto what you are holding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth exists; only lies are invented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth exists; only lies are invented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53468]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human heart is human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human heart is human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Dennis. I want Dennis long-term. I love what Dennis does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40687]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Dennis. I want Dennis long-term. I love what Dennis does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40687</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[There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out;  For our bad neighbor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out;  For our bad neighbor makes us early stirrers,   Which is both healthful, and good husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58509]]></link><description><![CDATA[His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really think about him a whole lot. I do take advantage of any opportunity to give my little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40768]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really think about him a whole lot. I do take advantage of any opportunity to give my little spiel about drinking and driving. He took something from us that we can never get back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An account of some of these acts makes Henry Miller's crudest imaginations seem as chaste as a nun's diary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37094]]></link><description><![CDATA[An account of some of these acts makes Henry Miller's crudest imaginations seem as chaste as a nun's diary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32505]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the advanced class and periodically I start another beginners class, ... The classes have a feeling of comradery. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28988]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the advanced class and periodically I start another beginners class, ... The classes have a feeling of comradery. They really enjoy the classes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12906]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66894]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12707</guid></item></channel></rss>