<?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[Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9313]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is a safe kind of high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is a safe kind of high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause, That all the year eats neither partridge not quail, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause, That all the year eats neither partridge not quail,  But sets up his rest and makes up his feast,   With a crust of brown bread and a pot of good ale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But something may be done that we will not; And sometimes we are devils to ourselves  When we will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58903]]></link><description><![CDATA[But something may be done that we will not; And sometimes we are devils to ourselves  When we will tempt the frailty of our powers,   Presuming on their changeful potency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4147]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and beneath,   Grottoes and temples with their crystal spires    And gleaming columns radiant in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24911]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This may be one of those years in the stock market where you'll want to sell on Memorial Day and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38861]]></link><description><![CDATA[This may be one of those years in the stock market where you'll want to sell on Memorial Day and go away until Labor Day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fostering mother. [Lat., Alma mater.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fostering mother. [Lat., Alma mater.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/563]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to make sure we send more people to the ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35238]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to make sure we send more people to the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hawk, the Kite, and the PigeonsThe pigeons, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon the Hawk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1601]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Hawk, the Kite, and the PigeonsThe pigeons, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon the Hawk to defend them. He at once consented. When they had admitted him into the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of them in one day than the Kite could pounce upon in a whole year. Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of love is getting out of oneself and into others. When we care less about our feelings, our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65825]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of love is getting out of oneself and into others. When we care less about our feelings, our rights, our happiness, our security, etc., and begin to concern ourselves with the feelings, rights, happiness, and security of others, we will have found the true power of love.”]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30296]]></link><description><![CDATA[He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it anyway.' He started throwing the breaking ball with the fastball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound  That breathes upon a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60723]]></link><description><![CDATA[It had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound  That breathes upon a bank of violets,   Stealing and giving odor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46716]]></link><description><![CDATA[I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19898]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far in adopting a sectarian agenda that it has become the political extension of a religious movement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the mental-health field, it's sort of walking a tightrope. You can't treat someone by simply locking them up. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33726]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the mental-health field, it's sort of walking a tightrope. You can't treat someone by simply locking them up. It can be tough, but we try to minimize the risk as best we can and still provide treatment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are unquestionably some patients getting too many embryos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32919]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are unquestionably some patients getting too many embryos.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 Continued from yesterday:  He, then, whose action is governed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 Continued from yesterday:  He, then, whose action is governed by mere desire is not free to attain the satisfaction which alone gives meaning to that desire. There is no breaking through this law of our being. Every attempt to do so proves itself in experience to be futile. Hence we are in a more helpless state of bondage than that which materialistic determinism holds; for the tyrant is established within our own consciousness. One way, and one way only, out of this bondage remains. If we can discover how to make our own immediate desire, and the act of will springing out of it, accord with the supreme law of our being, then to "do as we like" will no longer be to run our heads against the stone wall of necessity which shuts us out from the heaven of satisfaction. For we shall only "like" doing what we "ought". This introduces a new sense of the word "freedom". It does not now mean freedom from restrains to follow our desires, but freedom from the tyranny of futile desires to follow what is really good. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweetest the strain when in the song The singer has been lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweetest the strain when in the song The singer has been lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43839]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul;  That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19956]]></link><description><![CDATA[For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul;  That kindred feelings might our state improve,   And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. [Fr., Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American snacks like muffins, cookies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29834]]></link><description><![CDATA[American snacks like muffins, cookies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's an acre sown indeed, With the richest royalest seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's an acre sown indeed, With the richest royalest seed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else." (Vox et praeterea nibil.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   Old truths must be constantly re-stated if they are not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   Old truths must be constantly re-stated if they are not to be forgotten. To Homer, the dawn was "rosy-fingered"; to Shakespeare, it was "in russet mantle clad"; to Housman, "the ship of sunrise burning". The scientist can explain exactly why the sky looks as it does in the early morning, the physiologist why we perceive as we do. Yet no one suggests that there is no dawn at all, or that its appearance has changed over the centuries, or that any one of these percipients was mad or deceitful. Why should our knowledge of the Creator be less capable of variety and development than our knowledge of any aspect of Creation?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61478]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, that somehow the Vietnamese had brainwashed him. This is the most unbelievably callous, degrading, nonsensical piece of crap I've ever heard in my life, coming from some chicken hawk out there, to hurl at somebody who spent as long as he did being tortured and standing up for his country, and caring about it as much as he did. It's incredible that people would behave like that, absolutely stunning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother understands what a child does not say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother understands what a child does not say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syllables govern the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Syllables govern the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longest Day hath an Eueninge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longest Day hath an Eueninge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65966]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never believe your doubts and never doubt your beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never believe your doubts and never doubt your beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course it's always a little bit strange playing a guy who you just played with in the Davis Cup ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course it's always a little bit strange playing a guy who you just played with in the Davis Cup -- we won together an Olympic medal, and played last year's Davis Cup. But when you are professionals you know in this type of game and this level we can meet all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62604</guid></item></channel></rss>