<?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[The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65620]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63094]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Send not a Catt for Lard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Send not a Catt for Lard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58919]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presevo is about 90 percent ethnic Albanian -- it is a very tense place, I have been there myself -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presevo is about 90 percent ethnic Albanian -- it is a very tense place, I have been there myself -- it lies in a strategic valley,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62657]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Thames is liquid history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Thames is liquid history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath charge of soules transports them not in bundles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath charge of soules transports them not in bundles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The immediate priority is 2006. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36016]]></link><description><![CDATA[The immediate priority is 2006.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid. [Lat., Blandoque veneno  Desidiae virtus paullatim evicta senescit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid. [Lat., Blandoque veneno  Desidiae virtus paullatim evicta senescit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was ready to do things the right way when he got out, but when young men are put in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42026]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was ready to do things the right way when he got out, but when young men are put in prison and then thrown back on the street and have no training for anything they go right back into the pit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11701]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time you hear a mouse trap snap, and Angel gets set on fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Every wise workman takes his tools away from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom sails with wind and time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom sails with wind and time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, ... tired of common sense and civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion. [Lat., Exegi monumentum aera perennius  Regalique situ pyramidum altius,   Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens    Possit diruere aut innumerabilis     Annorum series et fuga temporum.      Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei       Vitabit Libitinam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,  How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to be a good parent. I've probably repressed my kids more than I should have, protecting them overly. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to be a good parent. I've probably repressed my kids more than I should have, protecting them overly. I never hit them. I yelled a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1417]]></link><description><![CDATA[How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was 10th my first year. I finished fifth the next year and third last season, now I'm looking to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was 10th my first year. I finished fifth the next year and third last season, now I'm looking to win it all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the second game in a row we came out turning the ball over. The pressure is probably what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29629]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the second game in a row we came out turning the ball over. The pressure is probably what caused it. When you get in a game like this, you can't turn the ball over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48945]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're in Washington and voting, you don't have the one-on-one interaction with your constituents that you do when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38741]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're in Washington and voting, you don't have the one-on-one interaction with your constituents that you do when you are in the district working out of the district office. You can do phone calls and letters and things like that (in Washington), but you can do one-on-one things in the district.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4656]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2885]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The style is the man. [Fr., Le style c'est l'homme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The style is the man. [Fr., Le style c'est l'homme.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To each foot its own shoe. [Fr., A chaque pied son soulier.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56219]]></link><description><![CDATA[To each foot its own shoe. [Fr., A chaque pied son soulier.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It fits us therefore ripely Our chariots and our horsemen be in readiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It fits us therefore ripely Our chariots and our horsemen be in readiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one should be left behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34205]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one should be left behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47340]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are deserving of any type of honor they receive. I think it's fantastic. Their teams are family. That's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28627]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are deserving of any type of honor they receive. I think it's fantastic. Their teams are family. That's the atmosphere they create with the children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58125]]></link><description><![CDATA[I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4506]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,  While the slant sun of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,  While the slant sun of February pours   Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach!    The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps     And the broad arching portals of the grove      Welcome thy entering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19151]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19151</guid></item></channel></rss>