<?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[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   George Brush, the hero of [Thornton Wilder's] "Heaven's My Destination", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   George Brush, the hero of [Thornton Wilder's] "Heaven's My Destination", a textbook salesman and evangelist extraordinary, is the innocent fool, in the kindliest sense of both the noun and the adjective. He is striving to be the fool in Christ, sowing the inevitable amazement, consternation and wrath that must ensue when Christ's fool runs at large among the worldly wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth,  The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best";   The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase confessed.    Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command,"     "Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand;      Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life,"       And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife";        Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be";         Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Abrams described a historically significant episode that revealed how the medical establishment -not just the government- has upheld prohibition.] In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33822]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Abrams described a historically significant episode that revealed how the medical establishment -not just the government- has upheld prohibition.] In 1997 after the law was changed in California, Jerome Kassirer, who was Editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, wrote an editorial on medical marijuana called 'federal foolishness,' saying 'We know this drug works, everybody has their anecdotal experience of people who have benefited from it, get over it, reschedule it, make it schedule 2.' Unfortunately, ... he very shortly thereafter became no longer the editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But she's got to lead us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37156]]></link><description><![CDATA[But she's got to lead us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only of the writer, artist and scientist, but of creators in other fields...With the noncreative it is the other way around: in whatever they do, they arrange things so that they themselves become indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . The dove and very blessed spirit of peace, . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12810]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . The dove and very blessed spirit of peace, . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was too bad 'cause he sat with the favorites for a really long time. But once again it shows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40105]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was too bad 'cause he sat with the favorites for a really long time. But once again it shows that Jakob is finding the form like Vande Velde, who has now been given the freedom to ride his own chance, while the others are going to back up Sastre 100%.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did thrust (as now) in other's corn his sickle.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did thrust (as now) in other's corn his sickle.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21202]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think of this award as being what we call 'The Year of the Complete Ballplayer,' ... The player that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think of this award as being what we call 'The Year of the Complete Ballplayer,' ... The player that has done the most not only for his team, but has done most to help his team win baseball games. Not only for home runs, runs batted in and batting average, but also in the clubhouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Einstein is an analytical mathematician seeking to give a physical interpretation to the conclusions of his mathematical process. In this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Einstein is an analytical mathematician seeking to give a physical interpretation to the conclusions of his mathematical process. In this he is hampered by a load of contradictory and absurd assumptions of the school that he follows, which throws him into all manner of difficulty. Einstein has such a faculty for embracing both sides of a contradiction that one would have to be of the same frame of mind to follow his thought, it is so peculiarly his own. The whole Relativity theory is as easy to follow as the path of a bat in the air at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still seeing some overland flooding issues, but it looks like the dikes are doing fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still seeing some overland flooding issues, but it looks like the dikes are doing fine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what wethink will make us happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what wethink will make us happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65583]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That byrd ys nat honest That fylythe hys owne nest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4249]]></link><description><![CDATA[That byrd ys nat honest That fylythe hys owne nest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk assessment has not proven itself infallible. A lot of this is subjective. We want to ensure that the community ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk assessment has not proven itself infallible. A lot of this is subjective. We want to ensure that the community has as much information as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing happens until something moves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing happens until something moves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engagedin work we enjoy on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21664]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engagedin work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established forourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. Itmakes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you’ll find is that you can overcome anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you’ll find is that you can overcome anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have believed--and we do believe now--that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20005]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have believed--and we do believe now--that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20005</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><item><title><![CDATA[The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9855]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61996]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to see this sport die. But I want to see it run in a more professional manner. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to see this sport die. But I want to see it run in a more professional manner. We have an opportunity here. We want to put a whole new face on dog racing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17964]]></link><description><![CDATA[When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who treads softly goes far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21372]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who treads softly goes far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth. -Love's Labour 's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1695]]></link><description><![CDATA["Conversation"God and I in space alone . . .and nobody else in view . . ."And where are all the people,Oh Lord" I said, "the earth below and the sky overheadand the dead that I once knew?""That was a dream," God smiledand said: "The dream that seemed tobe true; there were no peopleliving or dead; there was no earth, and no sky overhead,there was only myself in you.""Why do I feel no fear?" I asked,"meeting you here in this way?For I have sinned, I know full welland is there heaven and is there hell,and is this Judgement Day?""Nay, those were but dreams" the Great God said, "dreams that have ceased to be.There are no such things as fear and sin;there is no you . . . you never have been.There is nothing at all but me."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result. [Lat., Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superae sibi vindicant potestates.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61608</guid></item></channel></rss>