<?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[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." Ropo Oguntimehin Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave. -T.H. White.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/77]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/77</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The police chief works directly for the city manager, who works for the city council, so there is a direct ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The police chief works directly for the city manager, who works for the city council, so there is a direct line between city council goals for public safety and the law enforcement and safety professionals who carry out those goals,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26580]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like to think our fees and services, the charges we apply, are competitive. ... For things that we don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33759]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like to think our fees and services, the charges we apply, are competitive. ... For things that we don't control, the charges the tugs charge to provide assistance is competitive to other ports. The same holds true for our pilots, the guys who physically guide the ship in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22148]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like we have a rivalry every week. CU hates us. BYU hates us. Air Force doesn't care for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33099]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like we have a rivalry every week. CU hates us. BYU hates us. Air Force doesn't care for us and Wyoming really hates us. Every week, we're playing for some sort of trophy or plaque. That's what is unique about college football.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When's it going to get real? When are there going to be two sides? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40965]]></link><description><![CDATA[When's it going to get real? When are there going to be two sides?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A white wall is the paper of a foole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49084]]></link><description><![CDATA[A white wall is the paper of a foole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a game like this, you want to dominate the boards, you want to limit your turnovers and you want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33393]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a game like this, you want to dominate the boards, you want to limit your turnovers and you want to make good shot selections. We talked about that before the game and we talked about it yesterday at practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64436]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typically been depicted, she drew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typically been depicted, she drew attention to the power of media images to shape ideas of female identity,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37977]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19488]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blest tears of soul-felt penitence! In whose benign, redeeming flow  Is felt the first, the only sense   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blest tears of soul-felt penitence! In whose benign, redeeming flow  Is felt the first, the only sense   Of guiltless joy that guilt can know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not the lead sled dog, the world looks pretty much the same every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24853]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not the lead sled dog, the world looks pretty much the same every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the gods bless me, When all our offices have been oppressed  With riotous feeders, when our vaults have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27418]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the gods bless me, When all our offices have been oppressed  With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept   With drunken spilth of wine, when every room    Hath blazed with lights and brayed with minstrelsy,     I have retired me to a wasteful cock      And set mine eyes at flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that staies does the businesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49398]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that staies does the businesse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2269]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green;  But as the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43375]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green;  But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives   Slowly she clothes herself with leaves--    Hides her fruit under them, hard to find.     . . . .      But by and by, when the flowers grow few       And the fruits are dwindling and small to view--        Out she comes in her matron grace         With the purple myriads of her race;          Full of plenty from root to crown,           Showering plenty her feet adown.            While far over head hang gorgeously             Large luscious berries of sanguine dye,              For the best grows highest, always highest,               Upon the mulberry-tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solv.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were monitoring that system for days and days and days, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40852]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were monitoring that system for days and days and days,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56475]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That from small fires comes oft no small mishap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54049]]></link><description><![CDATA[That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240   We are building may splendid churches in this country, but we are not providing leaders to run them. I would rather have a wooden church with a splendid parson, than a splendid church with a wooden parson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. To be great is to be misunderstood. Every man is in some way my superior. A man is a god in ruins. Life is a festival only to the wise. Knowledge is the only elegance. We boil at different degrees. Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it. We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. What is the hardest thing in the world? To think. Accept your genius and say what you think. Make yourself necessary to somebody. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Music causes us to think eloquently. To live without duties is obscene. It is not length of life, but depth of life. The greatest homage to truth is to use it. The only reward of virtue is virtue. Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. We become what we think about all day long. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. There is no knowledge that is not power. Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right. A good indignation brings out all one's powers. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind. We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams. What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Our faith comes in moments, yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is merely through a transfer of idolatry. What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?. The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature. To think is to act. We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of somebody's enthusiasm. It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. This gives force to the strong - that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. -U.S. Poet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public. [Lat., Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public. [Lat., Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience and tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45738]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience and tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41478]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66820]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49868]]></link><description><![CDATA[The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50782]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've already started to look into safety at the port. We're talking to people over there to see if they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31772]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've already started to look into safety at the port. We're talking to people over there to see if they have everything they need from a security perspective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are wiser than we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26299]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are wiser than we know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26299</guid></item></channel></rss>