<?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[He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered. [Ger., Wer sich nicht nach der ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51971]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered. [Ger., Wer sich nicht nach der Decke streckt,  Dem bleiben die Fusse unbedeckt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n;  But such plain roofs as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8685]]></link><description><![CDATA[No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n;  But such plain roofs as Piety could raise,   And only vocal with the Maker's praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16363]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all else is lost, the future still remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17133]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all else is lost, the future still remains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. Anne Frank -John B. Sheerin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45472]]></link><description><![CDATA[The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58950]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? [Lat., Quid facies tibi,  Injuriae qui addideris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22844]]></link><description><![CDATA[What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? [Lat., Quid facies tibi,  Injuriae qui addideris contumeliam?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not even thinking about it right now. We won one game, now we've won two games and we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30480]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not even thinking about it right now. We won one game, now we've won two games and we have a winning streak. Our focus is on the next game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was never at the level Buchanan was at. The issue was more that the potential was there, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39771]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was never at the level Buchanan was at. The issue was more that the potential was there, and the water intrusion was there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18799]]></link><description><![CDATA[You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11792]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes  Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes  Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she hath smiles to earth unknown-- Smiles that with motion of their own  Do spread, and sink, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56694]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she hath smiles to earth unknown-- Smiles that with motion of their own  Do spread, and sink, and rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing is that they won the game. And that's what I've always said about Wilt's 100-point game. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing is that they won the game. And that's what I've always said about Wilt's 100-point game. We won the game. ... That's the reason you play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demand is high, but growth will be difficult for 2006. Galvanized sheet is used heavily in consumer durables-especially items such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Demand is high, but growth will be difficult for 2006. Galvanized sheet is used heavily in consumer durables-especially items such as sports utility vehicles. This sector carried the manufacturing economy during the recession; now it is due to cool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47565]]></link><description><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard of the fundamental equality as regards the right to self-preservation, the creature in human shape who acts in this way is to be treated by any and all other rational humans as a wild, clever, and therefore very dangerous animal, to be destroyed (if necessary) in order to safeguard the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26552]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The headline is very misleading on this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The headline is very misleading on this one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, within the leafy shade, Those bright blue eggs together laid!  On me the chance-discovered sight   Gleamed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, within the leafy shade, Those bright blue eggs together laid!  On me the chance-discovered sight   Gleamed like a vision of delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't get enough credit. Winning 14 games as a rookie is not bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32652]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't get enough credit. Winning 14 games as a rookie is not bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18907]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22144]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/655]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men and women, getting along, it's a joke. We have completely different brains, it's a completely different thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31776]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men and women, getting along, it's a joke. We have completely different brains, it's a completely different thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53679]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a lot of freshmen last year and our team never really clicked. This year, we know each other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32578]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a lot of freshmen last year and our team never really clicked. This year, we know each other better and we're communicating like a team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52031]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44284]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheer up, the worst is yet to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wood-pigeons cooed there, stock-doves nestled there; My trees were full on songs and flowers and fruit,  Their branches spread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wood-pigeons cooed there, stock-doves nestled there; My trees were full on songs and flowers and fruit,  Their branches spread a city to the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59192]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26826]]></link><description><![CDATA[A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;  Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;  Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart,   That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious    To have mistrusted her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See yonder maker of the dead man's bed, The sexton, hoary-headed chronicle,  Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18207]]></link><description><![CDATA[See yonder maker of the dead man's bed, The sexton, hoary-headed chronicle,  Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er stole   A gentle tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14513]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53348]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you listen to the politicians, you might think we are all terrorists ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58966]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you listen to the politicians, you might think we are all terrorists]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58966</guid></item></channel></rss>