<?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[There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25342]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get enthusiasm from one core group of people, they go out and drum up support and enthusiasm in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35039]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get enthusiasm from one core group of people, they go out and drum up support and enthusiasm in the community and you get the ball rolling and it's infectious, that's how people make things happen,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29401]]></link><description><![CDATA[No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;  In you soars up the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4548]]></link><description><![CDATA[In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;  In you soars up the Adam from the fall;   In you the Future as the Past is given--    Ev'n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;--     Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven,      Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9995]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63398]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not need; they have smaller families. It's lifestyle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35891]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not need; they have smaller families. It's lifestyle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   Thus was the Cross of Christ, in St. Paul's day, the glory of Christians; not as it signified their not being ashamed to own a master that was crucified, but as it signified their glorying in a religion which was nothing else but a doctrine of the Cross that called them to the same suffering spirit, the same sacrifice of themselves, the same renunciation of the world, the same humility and meekness, the same patient bearing of injuries, reproaches and contempts, and the same dying to all the greatness, honours, and happiness of this world, which Christ showed on the Cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22958]]></link><description><![CDATA[While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our "CONFIG.SYS" settings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/120]]></link><description><![CDATA[These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today, Abortion...For the pregnant women who don't want their children, give them to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would want to look at the land carefully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39577]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would want to look at the land carefully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a clowne your finger, and he will take your hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a clowne your finger, and he will take your hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They played for the city league championship and lost to Simon Gratz. That was always their state championship. Nobody is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41831]]></link><description><![CDATA[They played for the city league championship and lost to Simon Gratz. That was always their state championship. Nobody is comparable around here. They're interchangeable. They have big guys who can take it outside, they're super quick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31158]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means forcorrecting our misperceptions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50561]]></link><description><![CDATA[By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.   - Theodore Roosevelt,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12653]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I;  No harp like my own could so cheerily play,   And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When prodigals return great things are done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When prodigals return great things are done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An empire is an immense egotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13677]]></link><description><![CDATA[An empire is an immense egotism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be?  My God, no hymn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be?  My God, no hymn for Thee? My soul's a shepherd too: a flock it feeds  Of thoughts, and words, and deeds. The pasture is Thy Word, the streams, Thy Grace  Enriching all the place. Shepherd and flock shall sing, and all my powers  Out-sing the daylight hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/828]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pretty obvious to everyone there that there was a significant group that had been part of that for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pretty obvious to everyone there that there was a significant group that had been part of that for a long time that felt like there were still possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cowboy is a man with guts and a horse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19827]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cowboy is a man with guts and a horse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60080]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 For the power Thou hast given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is not my home: For my restless heart which nothing finite can satisfy:  I give Thee thanks, O God. For the invasion of my soul by Thy Holy Spirit: For all human love and goodness that speak to me of Thee: For the fullness of Thy glory outpoured in Jesus Christ  I give Thee thanks, O God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's just a little over an inch above normal. It's not spectacular but it's enough to make a difference here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37825]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's just a little over an inch above normal. It's not spectacular but it's enough to make a difference here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable notions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52465]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires of the crowd and their unreasonable notions. [Lat., Bona prudentiae pars est nosse stultas vulgi cupiditates, et absurdas opiniones.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13876]]></link><description><![CDATA[To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Larry Adams, 33, has been confined to a room in University Medical Center since April, when he received an artificial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40395]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Larry Adams, 33, has been confined to a room in University Medical Center since April, when he received an artificial heart. The heart is connected to a 350-pound machine, which is about the size of a dishwasher, and six feet of hose hooks the machine to pumps in Adams' chest.] I've just got to sit and wait, ... Everywhere I go, engineers have to push the box around with me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18516]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home- yea, I'm always at Om.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57169]]></link><description><![CDATA[That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when alone. [Lat., Nunquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus; nec minus solum quam cum solus esset.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY Thou hast not made, or taught me, Lord, to care For times and seasons -- but this one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8209]]></link><description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY Thou hast not made, or taught me, Lord, to care For times and seasons -- but this one glad day Is the blue sapphire clasping all the lights That flash in the girdle of the year so fair When thou wast born a man -- because alway  Thou wast and art a man through all the flights  Of thought, and time, and thousandfold creation's play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22114]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves. for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5694]]></link><description><![CDATA[And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves. for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60294]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing — a vice little known heretofore in the American army — is growing into fashion. Let the men and officers reflect 'that we can not hope for the blessing of heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28959]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply has made back the money it cost him to pursue this means of reaching his audience with his latest work. For authors who don't have the track record, reputation and built-in audience following of a Stephen King, obviously his example is one that doesn't necessarily encourage them to go out and dismiss their publishers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28959</guid></item></channel></rss>