<?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[In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26870]]></link><description><![CDATA[In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34286]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the first year for this. The productions are grad student directed, designed and all student run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39227]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the first year for this. The productions are grad student directed, designed and all student run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and time do more than strength or passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and time do more than strength or passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1938]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who are under the illusion that they're going to take all the best from both programs are living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who are under the illusion that they're going to take all the best from both programs are living a fantasy. You can't give everybody the best of both worlds in a low-cost environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49359]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20008]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44612]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we knowin order to find out what we do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we knowin order to find out what we do not know....Hence, to think creatively, wemust be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it counted the most, that's when we started losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40798]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it counted the most, that's when we started losing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5591]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1132]]></link><description><![CDATA[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/589]]></link><description><![CDATA[If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22993]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24721]]></link><description><![CDATA[If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/918]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee;  But I'll remember thee, Glencairn,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee;  But I'll remember thee, Glencairn,   And all that thou hast done for me!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the ups and downs have really made us appreciate what we have now all the more. We're just absolutely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29988]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the ups and downs have really made us appreciate what we have now all the more. We're just absolutely thrilled, and we couldn't be happier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The back-doore robs the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The back-doore robs the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[bring stability to the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28273]]></link><description><![CDATA[bring stability to the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50921]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely thanpeople across them.on C Span. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely thanpeople across them.on C Span.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  So long as we are full of self, we are shocked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  So long as we are full of self, we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14213]]></link><description><![CDATA[And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One way to recall the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7944]]></link><description><![CDATA[One way to recall the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not to let it wander too far at other times. You should keep it strictly in the Presence of God; and , being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wonderings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is a corporate vulgarity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is a corporate vulgarity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a late-night scene in every town, and everyone has something going on, ... I've heard good stories about (Syracuse); ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32854]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a late-night scene in every town, and everyone has something going on, ... I've heard good stories about (Syracuse); this is a very good party town, a good drinking place. I definitely would like to come back and check it out further. Do some more research, as I call it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26511]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22497]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45054]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45054</guid></item></channel></rss>