<?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[By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26671]]></link><description><![CDATA[By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of optimism. We proceeded to live these propositions, though we would not have stated them as blandly as I set them forth here:   Man is inherently good.  Individual man can carve out his own salvation with the help of education and society through progressively better government.  Reality and values worth searching for lie in the material world that science is steadily teaching us to analyze, catalogue, and measure. While we do not deny the existence of inner values, we relegate them to second place.  The purpose of life is happiness, [which] we define in terms of enjoyable activity, friends, and the accumulation of material objects.  The pain and evil of life -- such as ignorance, poverty, selfishness, hatred, greed, lust for power -- are caused by factors in the external world; therefore, the cure lies in the reforming of human institutions and the bettering of environmental conditions.  As science and technology remove poverty and lift from us the burden of physical existence, we shall automatically become finer persons, seeing for ourselves the value of living the Golden Rule.  In time, the rest of the world will appreciate the demonstration that the American way of life is best. They will then seek for themselves the good life of freedom and prosperity. This will be the greatest impetus toward an end of global conflict.  The way to get along with people is to beware of religious dictums and dogma. The ideal is to be a nice person and to live by the Creed of Tolerance. Thus we offend few people. We live and let live. This is the American Way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53432]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61943]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19272]]></link><description><![CDATA[No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we must not. You will learn about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. . . . No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tigers have built a much stronger military machine in the four years of the cease-fire. If the intensity of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Tigers have built a much stronger military machine in the four years of the cease-fire. If the intensity of the war increases, there is no doubt they have developed a capability to strike in Colombo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks for your nice little note, though I am sorry to hear you find Through the Looking Glass so uninteresting. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks for your nice little note, though I am sorry to hear you find Through the Looking Glass so uninteresting. You see I have done my best, so it isn't really my fault if you think Tweedledum and Tweedledee stupid, and wish that I had left out all about the train and the gnat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42316]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short to live the same day twice. It's a new day, get on your way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short to live the same day twice. It's a new day, get on your way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65268]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28025]]></link><description><![CDATA[I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44156</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[Ability is of little account without opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is of little account without opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine;  A small Euphrates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine;  A small Euphrates thro' the piece is roll'd,   And little eagles wave their wings in gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people: they go commonly together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We own the building, ... We as owners need to set an example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34189]]></link><description><![CDATA[We own the building, ... We as owners need to set an example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest productive force is human selfishness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest productive force is human selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental inharmony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale,  And every tale condemns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51520]]></link><description><![CDATA[My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale,  And every tale condemns me for a villain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before the injuries, we were a tight unit with the roles clearly defined. But once we lost players, all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before the injuries, we were a tight unit with the roles clearly defined. But once we lost players, all the roles had to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes your heart beat, ... We love to blow the walls out ... Of all the guys who started ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29293]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes your heart beat, ... We love to blow the walls out ... Of all the guys who started out at Sun, we are one of the few rock 'n' roll groups left. We're survivors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The CIS is a political collaboration, a forum of political communication, and is very useful for Georgia. But we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The CIS is a political collaboration, a forum of political communication, and is very useful for Georgia. But we are not considering the CIS from a military perspective, and our main aim is to join NATO.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is the senility of democracies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is the senility of democracies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes-- they only function when open. Thomas Dewar  "Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes-- they only function when open. Thomas Dewar  "Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. •George Orwell   The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. •Henri L. Bergson   Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts. •Eleanor H. Porter   The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes. •Henry Courtney   A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. •Leonardo Da Vinci   A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. •Carolyn Wells   Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character. •S. Dubay   A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. •Winston Churchill   The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. •Sigmund Freud   A feeble body weakens the mind. •Jean Jacques Rousseau   Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. •Buckminster Fuller   A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. •Anthony Trollope   We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. •Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe   A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. •Jean de LaBruyere   Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. •Napoleon Hill   A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. •Martin Luther King, Jr.   A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments. •Nicholas Hilliard  A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. •Eugene Ionesco   Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs. •Maxwell Maltz  Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set. •Source Unknown   The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it. •Michel de Montaigne  If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. •Lyall Watson  Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. •Elbert Hubbard  The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. •Colin Wilson   Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is when reality exceeds expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is when reality exceeds expectations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that serves well needes not ask his wages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49393]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that serves well needes not ask his wages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest piece of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, they say, the name of God may be on it. Though there was a little superstition in this, yet truly there is nothing but good religion in it, if we apply it to men. Trample not on any; there may be some work of grace there, that thou knowest not of. The name of God may be written upon that soul thou treadest on; it may be a soul that Christ thought so much of, as to give His precious blood for it; therefore despise it not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every teacher has to learn the lession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every teacher has to learn the lession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardens are a form of autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardens are a form of autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a huge step forward, and it's going to make it easier for all city employees because they are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33679]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a huge step forward, and it's going to make it easier for all city employees because they are going to know what is expected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9964]]></link><description><![CDATA[When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885   In our Ashrams of East ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885   In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart", in which we tell our needs... We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: "Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here?" My reply was: "No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed." In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they are expensive and have very high expectations for fast promotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33151]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they are expensive and have very high expectations for fast promotions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66482]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the interception, we wanted to stick with what was safe at the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37699]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the interception, we wanted to stick with what was safe at the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are never a loser until you quit trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10417]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are never a loser until you quit trying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27315]]></link><description><![CDATA[While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world seems ... a little less funny without you in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world seems ... a little less funny without you in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33254</guid></item></channel></rss>