<?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[Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What drove him to it, who pushed him to it, I don't know, ... I wish I could find out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29900]]></link><description><![CDATA[What drove him to it, who pushed him to it, I don't know, ... I wish I could find out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But even the Christian, for all this satisfying and hopeful conviction, does not know the meaning of the mystery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7952]]></link><description><![CDATA[But even the Christian, for all this satisfying and hopeful conviction, does not know the meaning of the mystery of life, and if he is wise he does not pretend to. He has enough light to light him on his way, but there are a great many gaps in his knowledge. When he says, "One day we shall understand", he is by no means always uttering a pious platitude. Quite frequently he is voicing a solid conviction, a genuine facet of hope. At present his vision is severely limited, and that is probably just as well, if his sanity is to be preserved. But when he is free of the limitations of temporal life, he has every hope of being able to know as surely as he is at present known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a result of this, people are calling for one or two more Fed moves. The dollar is going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34925]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a result of this, people are calling for one or two more Fed moves. The dollar is going to be a little bid on this one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(On what her longevity is attributed to) Red meat and gin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25519]]></link><description><![CDATA[(On what her longevity is attributed to) Red meat and gin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no true orator who is not a hero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45232]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no true orator who is not a hero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43711]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29547]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13622]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't mind being the underdogs. We'll take it and ride it. Do we want respect? Yeah, we want respect. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't mind being the underdogs. We'll take it and ride it. Do we want respect? Yeah, we want respect. But the only way you can get it is by earning it. We don't mind doing that. That's what we've had to do all year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17226]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the fight between you and the world, back the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15657]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the fight between you and the world, back the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57769]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our defense sparks us. When we make a good defensive play, when we come in to bat, it carries over. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our defense sparks us. When we make a good defensive play, when we come in to bat, it carries over. We don't strike out much. We do a good job of putting the bat on the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20169]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1796]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52716]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66464]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45350]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure?  Still it whisper'd promised pleasure,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19777]]></link><description><![CDATA[But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure?  Still it whisper'd promised pleasure,   And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was never a good war, or a bad peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61216]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was never a good war, or a bad peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62231]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our cities are saturated with fast-food purveyors. ... With the concentration of fast food even worse in school neighborhoods, our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our cities are saturated with fast-food purveyors. ... With the concentration of fast food even worse in school neighborhoods, our schools, parents, and policymakers need to take a serious look at this issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and anaction which does not proceed from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21796]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and anaction which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe the future of the airline industry is based on alliances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38973]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe the future of the airline industry is based on alliances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13167]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a major challenge. We are aware of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28277]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a major challenge. We are aware of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene;  No splendid poverty, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene;  No splendid poverty, no smiling care,   No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52342]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries greater weight than our self-interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death of junk e-mail will come from a social reason, ... One of two things will happen: No one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death of junk e-mail will come from a social reason, ... One of two things will happen: No one will check their e-mail boxes, or junkers will know no one is reading their e-mail. Either way, the message is not being delivered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36293]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety--they were with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4776]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two ill meales make the third a glutton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two ill meales make the third a glutton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret in education lies in respecting the student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret in education lies in respecting the student.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13444</guid></item></channel></rss>