<?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[Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sports do not build character. They reveal it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2620]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Edward's race;  Give ample room and verge enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Edward's race;  Give ample room and verge enough   The characters of Hell to trace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25960]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have art in order not to die of the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63656]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have art in order not to die of the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Correction does much, but encouragement does more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Correction does much, but encouragement does more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897   People talk about special providences. I believe in the providences, but not in the speciality. I do not believe that God lets the thread of my affairs go for six days, and on the seventh evening takes it up for a moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53335]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3463]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;  But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,   And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood,    Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men,     And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13055]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58345]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Examine what is said, not him who speaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Examine what is said, not him who speaks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60568]]></link><description><![CDATA[In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evaluation and judgment are responses to what exists, sorting the things that pass before us into categories of good, bad, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evaluation and judgment are responses to what exists, sorting the things that pass before us into categories of good, bad, and indifferent. But a rational life, the life of a valuer, does not consist essentially in reaction. It consists in action. Man does not find his values, like the other animals; he creates them. The primary focus of a valuer is not to take the world as it comes and pass judgment. His primary focus is to identify what might and ought to exist, to uncover potentialities that he can exploit, to find ways of reshaping the world in the image of his values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give love, and love to your life will flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give love, and love to your life will flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Coach (Augie) Garrido asked me if I could close if he needed me, I was fine with that. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28447]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Coach (Augie) Garrido asked me if I could close if he needed me, I was fine with that. That outing had no effect on me today. My arm felt 100 percent. You're going to have a bad day every now and then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31615]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64845]]></link><description><![CDATA[You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26215]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27388]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans elevation mais il n'y a point d'elevation sans quelque merite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, the czar did not want us in the schools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42046]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, the czar did not want us in the schools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ready to try our fortunes To the last man. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55936]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ready to try our fortunes To the last man. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is not received. It is achieved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not received. It is achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the solution is simple, God is answering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24426]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the solution is simple, God is answering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52158]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we are right, make us easy to live with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the South and their countrymen moldering the dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25695]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5932]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5932</guid></item></channel></rss>