<?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[If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2699]]></link><description><![CDATA[If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would help others out of a fellow-feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23751]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12433]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, sorrow! Why dost borrow  Heart's lightness from the merriment of May? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57255]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, sorrow! Why dost borrow  Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience, next, to thee I owe, Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd  In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience, next, to thee I owe, Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd  In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way,   And giv'st access, though secret she retire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Jesus! 'tis Thy Holy Face   Is here the star that guides my way; Thy countenance, so full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Jesus! 'tis Thy Holy Face   Is here the star that guides my way; Thy countenance, so full of grace,   Is heaven on earth, for me, to-day. And love finds holy charms for me   In Thy sweet eyes with tear-drops wet; Through mine own tears I smile at Thee,   And in Thy griefs my pains forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47270]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24300]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was recently on a tour of Latin America,and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47073]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was recently on a tour of Latin America,and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13913]]></link><description><![CDATA[A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was unbelievably difficult to get it made. Studios are extremely allergic to risk. Finally, after a long courtship, Lions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33996]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was unbelievably difficult to get it made. Studios are extremely allergic to risk. Finally, after a long courtship, Lions Gate Films agreed to make the film. They liked the idea of a sports movie where spelling was the sport, something that might be compared to 'Hoosiers' or other good sports movies, but with a younger lead character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! -As You Like It. Act v. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55691]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46781]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46373]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and he is us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13866]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and he is us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outreach and recruitment is something we're beginning to work on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Outreach and recruitment is something we're beginning to work on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The modest, lowly violet In leaves of tender green is set;  So rich she cannot hide from view,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The modest, lowly violet In leaves of tender green is set;  So rich she cannot hide from view,   But covers all the bank with blue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Springes to catch woodcocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Springes to catch woodcocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43218]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would you know what mony is, Go borrow some. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would you know what mony is, Go borrow some.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing's new, and nothing's true, and nothing matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing's new, and nothing's true, and nothing matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two other precious drops that ready stood, Each, in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell  Kiss'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two other precious drops that ready stood, Each, in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell  Kiss'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,  So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51486]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,  So honour peereth in the meanest habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Bush had an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden, he took his focus off of him, outsourced the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1681]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Bush had an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden, he took his focus off of him, outsourced the job to Afghan warlords and bin Laden escaped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The priorities would have remained the same ? first medical care, then law enforcement alert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The priorities would have remained the same ? first medical care, then law enforcement alert.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity comes in a once while, you got to see it, just like a shooting star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity comes in a once while, you got to see it, just like a shooting star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48691]]></link><description><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not number One; he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57708]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not number One; he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:  In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63618]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  The love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  The love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All that He has, all that He is, He gives; all that we are, all that we have, He takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[School is a building which has fours walls with tomorrow inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22779]]></link><description><![CDATA[School is a building which has fours walls with tomorrow inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did good, but we teased him in the second half when he got barbecued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35775]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did good, but we teased him in the second half when he got barbecued.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35775</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['Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24773]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise.  The work she plyed, but, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise.  The work she plyed, but, studious of delay,   Each following night reversed the toils of day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2848]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd. Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd. Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61947</guid></item></channel></rss>