<?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[The public is a ferocious beast: one must either chain it up or flee from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public is a ferocious beast: one must either chain it up or flee from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching and parenting have always gone hand-in-hand in helping to develop young people's ability to make good choices as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching and parenting have always gone hand-in-hand in helping to develop young people's ability to make good choices as they move into young adulthood. Providing a simple, easy-to-use program for schools that reinforces character development benefits children at every age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833   The fool for Christ holds a prophetic role in Christianity, from the early church to Russian Orthodox "pilgrims" and such later fools as Luther, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, who were seekers after the true, the good, the holy, the beautiful. They were insane -- not in a clinical sense, but in the madness of the Holy, an insanity which ordinary sanity refuses to admit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very common story. They're two very hard-working parents who have careers. They have aspirations. They're working extremely hard, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very common story. They're two very hard-working parents who have careers. They have aspirations. They're working extremely hard, but they have children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64581]]></link><description><![CDATA[There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every generation needs a new revolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every generation needs a new revolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's grow marijuana instead of cows in WestCanada.(re a 30 million dollar bust in an abandonedOntario brewery). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's grow marijuana instead of cows in WestCanada.(re a 30 million dollar bust in an abandonedOntario brewery).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. -Dinah Shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming of a to-morrow, which to-morrow Will be as distant then as 'tis to-day.   - Lope Felix de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming of a to-morrow, which to-morrow Will be as distant then as 'tis to-day.   - Lope Felix de Vega Carpio ("Tome Burguillos"),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fumes spread from the construction area into the records office. Several employees reported smelling noxious fumes. Several became lightheaded. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fumes spread from the construction area into the records office. Several employees reported smelling noxious fumes. Several became lightheaded. A few became nauseated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much learning does not teach understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much learning does not teach understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of interaction with regulators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37135]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of interaction with regulators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52319]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some and higher than others, but as lower than the lowest of mankind. We hate then the whole world, and we would pour our wrath upon the whole of creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14675]]></link><description><![CDATA[In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness hates the timid! So does science! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness hates the timid! So does science!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24381]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are used to a cagewill weep for a cage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are used to a cagewill weep for a cage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15678]]></link><description><![CDATA[FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34514]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52024]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change alone is unchanging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change alone is unchanging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you share with someone else, and you don't agree with the person you share with, there's no sovereignty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42454]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you share with someone else, and you don't agree with the person you share with, there's no sovereignty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44929]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden,   Stars that on earth's firmament do shine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few people I think fully comprehend the seriousness of the problem that the South and Southeast could be facing in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few people I think fully comprehend the seriousness of the problem that the South and Southeast could be facing in the next several weeks - it's an experience that few Americans have ever experienced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62849]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27636]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25176]]></link><description><![CDATA[From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very difficult to be great. Losers prove this point continuously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very difficult to be great. Losers prove this point continuously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[she explains, ''but I think they really need to go back to their core constituents. I'd like to focus on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41631]]></link><description><![CDATA[she explains, ''but I think they really need to go back to their core constituents. I'd like to focus on being the orchestra of the city of Baltimore and figure out how to give everyone in the community access to art music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916  If faith is the gaze of the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916  If faith is the gaze of the heart at God, and if this gaze is but the raising of the inward eyes to meet the all-seeing eyes of God, then it follows that it is one of the easiest things possible to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feelwhen you come in contact with a new idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22389]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feelwhen you come in contact with a new idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62518]]></link><description><![CDATA[This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the movies brought the war into it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41679]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the movies brought the war into it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54649]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. Sinners are much more fun...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28161]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62659]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is strange that death should sing. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55803]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is strange that death should sing. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55803</guid></item></channel></rss>