<?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 ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53751]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/89]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/89</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My circumstances do not make me what I am, they reveal who I havechosen to be. (from James Allen). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21489]]></link><description><![CDATA[My circumstances do not make me what I am, they reveal who I havechosen to be. (from James Allen).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24914]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14241]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are poor men's riches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are poor men's riches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A relationship is like a rose,How long it lasts, no one knows;Love can erase an awful past,Love can be yours, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2194]]></link><description><![CDATA[A relationship is like a rose,How long it lasts, no one knows;Love can erase an awful past,Love can be yours, you'll see at last;To feel that love, it makes you sigh,To have it leave, you'd rather die;You hope you've found that special rose,'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4371]]></link><description><![CDATA[So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49340]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1339]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9412]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's first creature, which was light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53694]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's first creature, which was light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex in space is not just a good idea, it\'s survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex in space is not just a good idea, it\'s survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27219]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried,... still displays the self- reliant watchfulness which man has never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried,... still displays the self- reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63179]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over  Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over  Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath,   He understood b' implicit faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all boil at different degrees ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19945]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all boil at different degrees]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system (radio, television, telephones); the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers (43 percent of the labor force by 2000) will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be "knowledge workers.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no future pang Can deal that justice on the self condemn'd  He deals on his own soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9793]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no future pang Can deal that justice on the self condemn'd  He deals on his own soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm of the opinion that school systems in the United States are not funded properly. If a school needs extra ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm of the opinion that school systems in the United States are not funded properly. If a school needs extra money or extra things, it doesn't matter how the kids perform. I think these schools need a lot more money and a lot more effort put into them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry; "Oh, give us water or we die!"  A voice came o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45071]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry; "Oh, give us water or we die!"  A voice came o'er the waters far,   "Just drop your bucket where you are."    And then they dipped and drank their fill     Of water fresh from mead and hill;      And then they knew they sailed upon       The broad mouth of the Amazon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most teachers - most people - feel their elected officials take care of that. That's their business, right? Most teachers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most teachers - most people - feel their elected officials take care of that. That's their business, right? Most teachers are busy teaching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5430]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The modesty's a candle to thy merit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The modesty's a candle to thy merit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48651]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22515]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world. [The Circle is Sacred].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have immediate needs such as fixing radio interoperability problems, repayment of local police for guarding airports, firefighter grants, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39482]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have immediate needs such as fixing radio interoperability problems, repayment of local police for guarding airports, firefighter grants, and other homeland security needs that the Congress and president need to act on, ... Funds for these urgent priorities were cut in the 2002 supplemental spending bill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8788]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None is offended but by himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49660]]></link><description><![CDATA[None is offended but by himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Heifer and the Ox A heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Heifer and the Ox A heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him with reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labor. Shortly afterwards, at the harvest festival, the owner released the Ox from his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honor of the occasion. The Ox saw what was being done, and said with a smile to the Heifer: For this you were allowed to live in idleness, because you were presently to be sacrificed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64475]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were once wild here ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61578]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were once wild here]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24303</guid></item></channel></rss>