<?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[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the most difficult day for me in my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31978]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the most difficult day for me in my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house is not a home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19605]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house is not a home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quote others only in order the better to express myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52884]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quote others only in order the better to express myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you label me you negate me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you label me you negate me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is obviously the most thorny problem. The situation is still brittle, even though the Gate Gourmet dispute is nearly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31738]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is obviously the most thorny problem. The situation is still brittle, even though the Gate Gourmet dispute is nearly over and BA is back working. There remains the possibility things will erupt again,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is drunken . . . Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill  Did with his liquor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22921]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is drunken . . . Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill  Did with his liquor slide into his veins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   It is a rare campus indeed where the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   It is a rare campus indeed where the Christian universe of discourse is the shared basis of allegiance and the common currency of intellectual exchange. More likely, the Christian faith is an archaic facade, a bit of Victorian fretwork on the front of the house, of which polite note is made at Commencement, but not the common premise of teaching and research and learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Answer me in one word. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Answer me in one word. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She laughs at my dreams, but I dream about her laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12842]]></link><description><![CDATA[She laughs at my dreams, but I dream about her laughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation,  And bury all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8781]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation,  And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges,   In heaps and piles of ruin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw they had 28 yards rushing in the first half, I said, 'We're back,' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38378]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw they had 28 yards rushing in the first half, I said, 'We're back,']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right out of the chute, we announced awards from returning customers and had a fantastically successful Atlas V launch with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right out of the chute, we announced awards from returning customers and had a fantastically successful Atlas V launch with NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto - and there are 11 months to go in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day,  When from his tomb ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day,  When from his tomb the imprisoned God,   Like the strong sunrise, broke away?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the other be where he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the other be where he may.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21502]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47587]]></link><description><![CDATA[People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.   - John Lyly (Lylie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.   - John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   [The Christian] refuses to give his heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936   [The Christian] refuses to give his heart to, or be taken in by, the values and pleasures off this passing world. He does not hesitate to use all that is good and beautiful and true, partly because he knows that his God gives him "richly all things to enjoy", and partly because he knows that in all life's impermanent beauties and pleasures, there is the promise of the real and permanent which he is thoroughly convinced will exceed his wildest expectations. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The national news has people afraid they can't even go outside without a mask and a full body suit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The national news has people afraid they can't even go outside without a mask and a full body suit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. A man is too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1433]]></link><description><![CDATA[They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left to him. Better bend than break. Never swap horses while crossing a stream.Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Fail to plan, plan to fail. -Carl W. Buechner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money -- then make money with money -- then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money -- then make money with money -- then make lots of money with lots of money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happiest when I'm teaching people; I just love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happiest when I'm teaching people; I just love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see it as a trusted traveler program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29340]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see it as a trusted traveler program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65494]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9940]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18716]]></link><description><![CDATA[I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. Mary Baker Eddy -Ursula K. LeGuin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everye white will have its blacke, And everye sweete its soure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everye white will have its blacke, And everye sweete its soure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad Dorismar agreed to cooperate, but next time I would prefer a Mexican actress, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36592]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad Dorismar agreed to cooperate, but next time I would prefer a Mexican actress,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Budgets are for cutting, that's why you set them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Budgets are for cutting, that's why you set them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47016]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20368]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21729]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair,and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial,industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later lifethe success often erroneously attributed to good luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love received is the love that is saved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love received is the love that is saved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living-dead man. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55410]]></link><description><![CDATA[A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living-dead man. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course;  Through watchful guards its passage make,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course;  Through watchful guards its passage make,   And loves through solid walls to break.    [Lat., Aurum per medios ire satellites     Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius      Ictu fulmineo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent over five years fighting crime for the Secretary of State Police on the streets of East St. Louis, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33741]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent over five years fighting crime for the Secretary of State Police on the streets of East St. Louis, earning both a lifesaving award and the Secretary of State's Medal of Honor during that time. We like to think that Macoupin County is safe from the problems of the big city, but unfortunately, violent crimes and methamphetamine production are on the rise in rural areas. My experience working in St. Clair and Madison counties will better able me to confront methamphetamine production and violent crime head-on while still understanding the rural needs of Macoupin County.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62781]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62781</guid></item></channel></rss>