<?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[It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God heals, and the doctor takes the fee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18940]]></link><description><![CDATA[God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anarchy is a form of crime ... We will search the perpetrators, detain them and bring them to trial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anarchy is a form of crime ... We will search the perpetrators, detain them and bring them to trial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war for liberty never ends. One day liberty has to be defended against the power of wealth, on another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war for liberty never ends. One day liberty has to be defended against the power of wealth, on another day against the intrigues of politicians, on another against the dead hand of bureaucrats, on another against the patrioter and the militarist, on another against the profiteer, and then against the hysteria and the passions of the mobs, against obscurantism and stupidity, against the criminal and against the overrighteous. In this campaign every civilized man is enlisted till he dies, and he only has known the full joy of living who somewhere and at some time has struck a decisive blow for the freedom of the human spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer; when sick we call them to attend us, without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer; when sick we call them to attend us, without the least propensity to jeer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To break training without permission is an act of treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59661]]></link><description><![CDATA[To break training without permission is an act of treason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40349]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less routine the more life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less routine the more life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a respect for the people [American Indians], but I have a right to do what I'm doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a respect for the people [American Indians], but I have a right to do what I'm doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain. [Lat., Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis facere, tibi quid ex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17144]]></link><description><![CDATA[From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain. [Lat., Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis facere, tibi quid ex usu sit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53688]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Let The Dogs Out? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who Let The Dogs Out?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome theobstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome theobstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more thanthe intelligence quotient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put thyself into the trick of singularity. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put thyself into the trick of singularity. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eating words has never given me indigestion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eating words has never given me indigestion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that is a master must serve (another). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that is a master must serve (another).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of light--the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25074]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of light--the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest poetry was first experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest poetry was first experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pressure is growing inside the system to contain him and to pass these four years as quickly as possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pressure is growing inside the system to contain him and to pass these four years as quickly as possible without too much damage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so we stand here motionless, waiting for the bitter end of all that is beautiful in this world; hoping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12107]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so we stand here motionless, waiting for the bitter end of all that is beautiful in this world; hoping only that the futures power will shed light on a new and wonderful destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,-- That firste he wroughte and after he taughte. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14388]]></link><description><![CDATA[This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,-- That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not wish to inhibit the artistic merits of our students, but there will be warnings before particularly racy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31630]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not wish to inhibit the artistic merits of our students, but there will be warnings before particularly racy films.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953   Counter-culture's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953   Counter-culture's glad tidings of revolution by consciousness are neither new nor revolutionary. Christianity has been trying to achieve a revolution by consciousness for two thousand years. Who would deny that Christian consciousness could have changed the world? Yet it was the world that changed Christian consciousness. If everybody adopted a peaceful, loving, generous, noncompetitive lifestyle, we could have something better than counter-culture -- we could have the Kingdom of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46055]]></link><description><![CDATA[People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36438]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain,  For purple mountains majesties   Above the fruited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2395]]></link><description><![CDATA[O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain,  For purple mountains majesties   Above the fruited plain.    America! America! God shed His grace on thee,     And crown thy good with brotherhood      From sea to shining sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62054]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are often saved from crime by the disgrace of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50379]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are often saved from crime by the disgrace of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21052]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa aestimat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is not gold that one sees shining. [Fr., Que tout n'est pas or c'on voit luire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is not gold that one sees shining. [Fr., Que tout n'est pas or c'on voit luire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13197]]></link><description><![CDATA[He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13197</guid></item></channel></rss>