<?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[Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   It is a rare campus indeed where the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   It is a rare campus indeed where the Christian universe of discourse is the shared basis of allegiance and the common currency of intellectual exchange. More likely, the Christian faith is an archaic facade, a bit of Victorian fretwork on the front of the house, of which polite note is made at Commencement, but not the common premise of teaching and research and learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only wealth is life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only wealth is life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46573]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least,  But each with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least,  But each with its own heart and mind,   Each of its own distinctive kind,    Yet each a part and none the whole,     But all together form one soul;      That soul Our Country at its best,       No North, no South, no East, no West,        No yours, no mine, but always Ours,         Merged in one Power our lesser powers,          For no one's favor, great or small,           But all for Each and each for All.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you command wisely, you\'ll be obeyed cheerfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66737]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you command wisely, you\'ll be obeyed cheerfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They screwed us up one year, and we want to turn it back at them whenever we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30868]]></link><description><![CDATA[They screwed us up one year, and we want to turn it back at them whenever we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1225]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps--does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps--does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/226]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52998]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26825]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43172]]></link><description><![CDATA[To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping if the dumpling-eating challenge is successful, ... it will make our event the premier dumpling-eating event in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33145]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping if the dumpling-eating challenge is successful, ... it will make our event the premier dumpling-eating event in the New York area, sort of like what Coney Island is to Nathan's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their defense was good. They were on the body on the catch and just made you think about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their defense was good. They were on the body on the catch and just made you think about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[misrepresented its own studies and the concerns of physicians suggesting the drug may increase the risk of heart problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35975]]></link><description><![CDATA[misrepresented its own studies and the concerns of physicians suggesting the drug may increase the risk of heart problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully a few days of rest will give her an opportunity to heal up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully a few days of rest will give her an opportunity to heal up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14540]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27122]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?  How begot, how nourished?  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?  How begot, how nourished?   Reply, reply.    It is engend'red in the eyes,     With gazing fed, and fancy dies      In the cradle where it lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We looked at the future map and it said agriculture. I thought the people here want to preserve farm land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We looked at the future map and it said agriculture. I thought the people here want to preserve farm land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5577]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27883]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains  The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9139]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains  The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always more expensive to do something than nothing. But in the long run, it will be less expensive, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28206]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always more expensive to do something than nothing. But in the long run, it will be less expensive, because you're not creating as many lifetime criminals and you're helping more kids to become successful members of society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miser is as much in want of that which he has, as of that which he has not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser is as much in want of that which he has, as of that which he has not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14634]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. He hath indeed bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amiable weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amiable weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9866]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[External nature is only internal nature writ large. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63480]]></link><description><![CDATA[External nature is only internal nature writ large.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You had a player that wants to be here, agents that were dealmakers and you had a club that wants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34682]]></link><description><![CDATA[You had a player that wants to be here, agents that were dealmakers and you had a club that wants to keep the player, ... When you have all those things working for you, you can figure out a way to make a deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worker is being treated at the hospital for non-life threatening injuries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worker is being treated at the hospital for non-life threatening injuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Bryan O'Lynn had no shirt to put on, He took him a sheep skin to make him a' one. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44613]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Bryan O'Lynn had no shirt to put on, He took him a sheep skin to make him a' one.  "With the skinny side out, and the wooly side in,   'Twill be warm and convanient," said Bryan O'Lynn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that we all carry the divine within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that we all carry the divine within us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43896]]></link><description><![CDATA[When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a problem with several media taking only a part of the reality and not the whole picture. Some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a problem with several media taking only a part of the reality and not the whole picture. Some media in the world are more critical towards what's happening than others. It depends on the journalist, it depends how much information they have about the case and which perspective they are asking you from. All of these things can play a role.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28526</guid></item></channel></rss>