<?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[Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes and values or emotional responses, however "worthy," to make judgments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found significant problems, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found significant problems, the expedited removal process has been expanded over and over again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sin except stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56422]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sin except stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a broken promise than none at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a broken promise than none at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14893]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a higher faculty than reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a higher faculty than reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street Till--think of that who find life so sweet!--  She hates the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street Till--think of that who find life so sweet!--  She hates the smell of roses!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't graduate from any of them (Colleges) and look at me now mom! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't graduate from any of them (Colleges) and look at me now mom!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22923]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ebrietas designat? Operta recludit;  Spes jubet esse ratas; in praelia trudit inermem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love. What is love? No word can define it, it's something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love. What is love? No word can define it, it's something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43225]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22740]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64607]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44897]]></link><description><![CDATA[And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's all kinds of things happening. It shuts out long weekends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37891]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's all kinds of things happening. It shuts out long weekends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every animal loves itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every animal loves itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66699]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43123]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!  . . . .  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4847]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!  . . . .   By fairy hands their knell is rung,    By forms unseen their dirge is sung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the most brutal thing I have ever seen there was a stream of blood going down the street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36949]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the most brutal thing I have ever seen there was a stream of blood going down the street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is hard. After all, it kills you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is hard. After all, it kills you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43087]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12235]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12235</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[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in badcompany. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21463]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in badcompany.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas his ambition, generous and great A life to life's great end to consecrate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61253]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas his ambition, generous and great A life to life's great end to consecrate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought Old Mill outplayed us in all faucets of the game. Quite frankly, they were the better team at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought Old Mill outplayed us in all faucets of the game. Quite frankly, they were the better team at the end of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not love where there is no will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64192]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not love where there is no will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud   Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud:    Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears;     And instant death on every wave appears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign,  Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife,   And so turns wine to water back again.   - Richard Crashaw,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot see myself as a writer, writing about lovers in Accra because you see, there are so many other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot see myself as a writer, writing about lovers in Accra because you see, there are so many other problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29700</guid></item></channel></rss>