<?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[Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. -Ken Burns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The names above him [Andrew Strauss] on the list date back generations to the days of cricketing folklore: Herbert Sutcliffe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The names above him [Andrew Strauss] on the list date back generations to the days of cricketing folklore: Herbert Sutcliffe, Len Hutton and Wally Hammond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5428]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pursue that which retreats from us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11982]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pursue that which retreats from us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen, A bloody tyrant and a homicide;  One raised in blood and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59977]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen, A bloody tyrant and a homicide;  One raised in blood and one in blood established;   One that made means to come by what he hath,    And slaughtered those that were the means to help him;     A base foul stone, made precious by the foil      Of England's chair, where he is falsely set;       One that hath ever been God's enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art always has something of the unconscious about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art always has something of the unconscious about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26257]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63130]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15196]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M Post-It Notepads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.   - Ralph ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53009]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11971]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5605]]></link><description><![CDATA[It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd say our chemistry is fine; we can anticipate each other. I think people have molded very well. Even when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd say our chemistry is fine; we can anticipate each other. I think people have molded very well. Even when we have substitutes coming in, we know what to expect from each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4764]]></link><description><![CDATA[People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47193]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him out to the barn with an empty pail and expect him to return with milk. To say that a criminologist understands crime is not to say that we can send him out with a grant or a law and expect him to return with a lower crime rate. He is more likely to return with a report on why he has not succeeded yet, and including the inevitable need for more money, a larger staff, more sweeping powers, etc.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60767]]></link><description><![CDATA[What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a great ride, and it's time to move on to other things, but not without mixed feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33460]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a great ride, and it's time to move on to other things, but not without mixed feelings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2588]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's all I could think to do, and after I did that, it let go. And I wanted to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30643]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's all I could think to do, and after I did that, it let go. And I wanted to get to shore as soon as I could. The thought crossed my mind that I might not make it back in and it was just pretty hectic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the friend who was once your foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the friend who was once your foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59851]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition to stand up for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63247]]></link><description><![CDATA[First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62472]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swami Vivekanand, during his last days, had expressed the need for a man-making machinery in India. The RSS formed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swami Vivekanand, during his last days, had expressed the need for a man-making machinery in India. The RSS formed by Dr Hegdewar in 1925, did the same work Vivekanand aspired for - making men,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11919]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It depends on what these organizations tell us they need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29038]]></link><description><![CDATA[It depends on what these organizations tell us they need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16692]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The role of the post office [currently] is as trusted third party with an unparalleled workforce and physical locations, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The role of the post office [currently] is as trusted third party with an unparalleled workforce and physical locations, ... Who else can claim so many countertops and employees, and the trust of virtually every merchant in the country with their money, with their bills, with everything?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone says can't, that shows you what to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22481]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22481</guid></item></channel></rss>