<?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 Kid and the WolfA kid standing on the roof of a house, out of harm's way, saw a Wolf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Kid and the WolfA kid standing on the roof of a house, out of harm's way, saw a Wolf passing by and immediately began to taunt and revile him. The Wolf, looking up, said, Sirrah! I hear thee: yet it is not thou who mockest me, but the roof on which thou art standing. Time and place often give the advantage to the weak over the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The paths of glory lead but to the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The paths of glory lead but to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9089]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to her cloth she cut her coat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51966]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to her cloth she cut her coat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornets' nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39411]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornets' nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ definitely not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65638]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave To tell us this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2788]]></link><description><![CDATA[There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave To tell us this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?  How begot, how nourished?  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?  How begot, how nourished?   Reply, reply.    It is engend'red in the eyes,     With gazing fed, and fancy dies      In the cradle where it lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  There is no such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  There is no such thing as a post-Christian society. One generation may reject the Gospel itself, but it cannot reject it for future generations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans should not impose a solution, but this administration will finally have to make it clear what its vision for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans should not impose a solution, but this administration will finally have to make it clear what its vision for a two-state solution is. Just saying 'a two-state solution' is too ambiguous. The vision has to spell out the details on final status issues such as Palestinian refugees, borders and Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46296]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25229]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I received his resignation in the morning, and we will discuss it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28994]]></link><description><![CDATA[I received his resignation in the morning, and we will discuss it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11746]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This issue has caused so much negative publicity. No matter which way the vote comes out, we are anxious to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37766]]></link><description><![CDATA[This issue has caused so much negative publicity. No matter which way the vote comes out, we are anxious to move forward with our image campaign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62758]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if the weather has been the same for 364 days. It's just a gut-level, immediate concern that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32217]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if the weather has been the same for 364 days. It's just a gut-level, immediate concern that most people have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All styles are good except the tiresome kind. [Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58103]]></link><description><![CDATA[All styles are good except the tiresome kind. [Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -Niels Bohr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1155]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people.  The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the rose. Lust is the thorn.http://www.sathyasai.org. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the rose. Lust is the thorn.http://www.sathyasai.org.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54208]]></link><description><![CDATA[It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise still higher, is perfectly bombast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still collecting scientific data. I'm really surprised we haven't gone into emergency mode. This time last November, we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31980]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still collecting scientific data. I'm really surprised we haven't gone into emergency mode. This time last November, we were passing through this same zone, and we got clobbered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17885]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63774]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13168]]></link><description><![CDATA[He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every silver lining has a cloud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every silver lining has a cloud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21172]]></link><description><![CDATA[My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9023]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, if they would thank their maker, And seek no further, but they have new creators,  God tailor and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, if they would thank their maker, And seek no further, but they have new creators,  God tailor and god mercer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're looking at new places in that part of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31677]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're looking at new places in that part of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to exemplify values than teach them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40642]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53091</guid></item></channel></rss>