<?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[One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66265]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17935]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you restrain your laughter, my friends? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is painful for me because I would love to sit down and talk to my dad about the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is painful for me because I would love to sit down and talk to my dad about the way he used to be when he was my age, when he was in his prime, because we are so much alike,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9000]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all consider Jeremy to be a huge part of this team and this program. He's just a great person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40551]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all consider Jeremy to be a huge part of this team and this program. He's just a great person and a great friend, and he's helped us all understand his culture a little bit more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9473]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. - Inaugural Address.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19700]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hastens a glutton choakes him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hastens a glutton choakes him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. -Spinoza.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm putting the island in a trust so that only blood relatives can live on it for the next 360 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33350]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm putting the island in a trust so that only blood relatives can live on it for the next 360 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6119]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ladies at the food stamp office started calling around. And by the time we left the office, we had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ladies at the food stamp office started calling around. And by the time we left the office, we had food and clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Changed to a lapwing by th' avenging god, He made the barren waste his lone abode,  And oft on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Changed to a lapwing by th' avenging god, He made the barren waste his lone abode,  And oft on soaring pinions hover'd o'er   The lofty palace then his own no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China has not only become a world major export country, but also an important import market ever since it adopted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36622]]></link><description><![CDATA[China has not only become a world major export country, but also an important import market ever since it adopted the reform and opening-up policies in 1978.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5418]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  The minister is the servant of his people, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  The minister is the servant of his people, who has to help them discern for themselves the will of God for their real work in the real world. It will often be his duty, therefore, to establish a certain economy in the internal life of the Church, so that people are released to give time and energy to fulfilment of their Christian duty in the worlds of industry or politics or business or professional life, where their most determinative decisions have to be taken. A new puritanism is urgently needed in most churches, which cuts away ruthlessly from their life all organizations and activities which prevent their members from grappling with their real task.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no judgments where you have no compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no judgments where you have no compassion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63999]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the state of this country worsens every day, ... It's full of garbage, there's a lot of crime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the state of this country worsens every day, ... It's full of garbage, there's a lot of crime and a lot of corruption in the government and police. It's all upside down ? everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had it in our hands and then he makes a spin move, double-pumps, goes under me and shoots a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32699]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had it in our hands and then he makes a spin move, double-pumps, goes under me and shoots a three, off-balance, on one leg and makes it. Congratulations!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To my purist trout fishing friends, bass are lowly green fish and brown fish. To me, bass are bent rods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/593]]></link><description><![CDATA[To my purist trout fishing friends, bass are lowly green fish and brown fish. To me, bass are bent rods and aching arms. To my ex-wife, bass are the bewilderment of addiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8724]]></link><description><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60741]]></link><description><![CDATA[People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14283]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.  He only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47763]]></link><description><![CDATA[My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.  He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58689]]></link><description><![CDATA[In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4276]]></link><description><![CDATA[My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cynic in me says they want to lock him up and maybe squeeze him to get him to say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cynic in me says they want to lock him up and maybe squeeze him to get him to say something. I don't know what it is they expect him to say. Anytime they called to talk to him, he did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39665</guid></item></channel></rss>