<?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[Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35194]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11734]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we build to that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10877]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28040]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death will have his day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death will have his day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60949]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3801]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65725]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace ... that we have incurred the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52769]]></link><description><![CDATA[A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Democrats think Republicans are stealing elections. The Republicans think Democrats are stealing elections. And those of us independent of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Democrats think Republicans are stealing elections. The Republicans think Democrats are stealing elections. And those of us independent of the two old parties know they are both right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all likelihood, the Library of Congress and Dr. Billington will be consulting closely with the U.S. Copyright Office housed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28961]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all likelihood, the Library of Congress and Dr. Billington will be consulting closely with the U.S. Copyright Office housed in the Library of Congress,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only the giving that makes you what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36663]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only the giving that makes you what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22507]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. For it is not by the possession, but the search after truth that he enlarges his power, wherein alone consists his ever-increasing perfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Threaten the oppressed and be prepared to face their onslaught, abuse them and be prepared for an even greater threat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Threaten the oppressed and be prepared to face their onslaught, abuse them and be prepared for an even greater threat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not want　only destroy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a broken nest there are few whole eggs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15159]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take up the White Man's burden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take up the White Man's burden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes witch we see reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes witch we see reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12957]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his houl is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7460]]></link><description><![CDATA[By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his houl is laid bare. If he regards Christ with love, even with wistful yearning, for him there is hope; but if in Christ he sees nothing lovely he has condemned himself. He who was sent in love has become to the man, judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very uniqueness of the Resurrection as a historical event always causes problems when we try to describe it, just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very uniqueness of the Resurrection as a historical event always causes problems when we try to describe it, just as it did for the original writers. Nevertheless, the background to the New Testament is one of expectation of resurrection, and only the historical rising-again of Jesus makes sense of the narrative in this context.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance is a great promoter of admiration! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance is a great promoter of admiration!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62487]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26751]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36468]]></link><description><![CDATA[In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging it even to himself, that in war he was likely to enjoy little profit or pleasure on the day when the long, low, black hull of the Yankee privateer, with her tapering, bending spars, her long-range guns, and her sharp-faced captain, should appear on the western horizon, and suddenly, at the sight of heavy-lumbering British merchantman, should fling out her white wings of canvas, and fly down on her prey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25992]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54947]]></link><description><![CDATA[And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All locations are looking at that possibility. The more it's accepted in the marketplace, the more it catches on, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41244]]></link><description><![CDATA[All locations are looking at that possibility. The more it's accepted in the marketplace, the more it catches on, you will see that next level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28060]]></link><description><![CDATA[With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would of course speak with any interested shareholder of relevant thoughts and perspectives. We have informed Icahn that we'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34168]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would of course speak with any interested shareholder of relevant thoughts and perspectives. We have informed Icahn that we'd be happy to meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31460</guid></item></channel></rss>