<?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[I saw my first Friesian back in 1980 when I was a judge at the California State Fair. I just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32766]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw my first Friesian back in 1980 when I was a judge at the California State Fair. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing --- the animation, the style, the tremendous stature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated need but to be seen;  Yet seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated need but to be seen;  Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,   We first endure, then pity, then embrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love-all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are faults we would fain pardon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50359]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are faults we would fain pardon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17512]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20820]]></link><description><![CDATA[A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played 13 tonight and they all rose to the occasion. We kept working and fighting to make this happen. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39820]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played 13 tonight and they all rose to the occasion. We kept working and fighting to make this happen. I'm proud of these girls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15565]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14132]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a little thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Tuesday night, we had a meeting. I told them that there's no excuse for our pitcher getting 15 strikeouts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40958]]></link><description><![CDATA[After Tuesday night, we had a meeting. I told them that there's no excuse for our pitcher getting 15 strikeouts and us not being able to get six outs without giving up some runs. We had been practicing kind of sluggish, and that carries over. But we bounced back Thursday and started hitting the ball. It was a good mental victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is when reality exceeds expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is when reality exceeds expectations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes, almost two genera- a small minority that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52198]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes, almost two genera- a small minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them. The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority, and to the minority only. The majority has no more to do with it than it has to do with ecclesiastic politics on Mars. In so far as that heritage is apprehended, it is viewed with enmity. But in the main it is not apprehended at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35166]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46606]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overwork: n., a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overwork: n., a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She trains with the boys. There's no reason why she can't be one of the top 10 runners in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41765]]></link><description><![CDATA[She trains with the boys. There's no reason why she can't be one of the top 10 runners in the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade,  Where rumour of oppression and deceit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade,  Where rumour of oppression and deceit,   Of unsuccessful or successful war,    Might never reach me more!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32081]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform, but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fishermen will snatch it out in his own good time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34248]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We stand for negotiations and emphasize that issues of this kind cannot be referred to the UN Security Council just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35735]]></link><description><![CDATA[We stand for negotiations and emphasize that issues of this kind cannot be referred to the UN Security Council just because of imagination about (Iran's) intentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15116]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53221]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had very little confidence in myself as an actress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Darby saw the setting sun He swung his scythe, and home he run,  Sat down, drank off his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62117]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Darby saw the setting sun He swung his scythe, and home he run,  Sat down, drank off his quart and said,   "My work is done, I'll go to bed."    "My work is done!" retorted Joan,     "My work is done! Your constant tone,      But hapless woman ne'er can say       'My work is done' till judgment day."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my thill-horse has on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51407]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my thill-horse has on his tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many, many prayer services around the world, with people praying for his speedy recovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36744]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many, many prayer services around the world, with people praying for his speedy recovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46892]]></link><description><![CDATA[A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toughness played a much bigger role on those teams. We had eight legitimate fighters. I helped with that toughness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Toughness played a much bigger role on those teams. We had eight legitimate fighters. I helped with that toughness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During the quarter, we maintained our focus on managing costs, increasing revenue in our growth businesses, and improving customer satisfaction, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42520]]></link><description><![CDATA[During the quarter, we maintained our focus on managing costs, increasing revenue in our growth businesses, and improving customer satisfaction,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A weak Invention of the Enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13846]]></link><description><![CDATA[A weak Invention of the Enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men . . . in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14407]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men . . . in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46663]]></link><description><![CDATA[When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do think there has been an air of cooperation, and I think we are going to read this here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do think there has been an air of cooperation, and I think we are going to read this here and see we have made some progress on both sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32394</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[He who avoids complaint invites happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63866]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who avoids complaint invites happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One by one the flowers close, Lily and dewy rose  Shutting their tender petals from the moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14261]]></link><description><![CDATA[One by one the flowers close, Lily and dewy rose  Shutting their tender petals from the moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8543]]></link><description><![CDATA[One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It raises scruples when we don't keep the routine. (2) It raises presumption when we do. Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8543</guid></item></channel></rss>