<?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've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49766]]></link><description><![CDATA[States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly the notion of putting music video on phones will increase over time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly the notion of putting music video on phones will increase over time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4472]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2229]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still; Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still; Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. [Lat., Qui ex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52458]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. [Lat., Qui ex errore imperitae multitudinis pendet, hic in magnis viris non est habendus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16832]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be  Ere one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be  Ere one can say 'It lightens.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to go into history; I want to go into the Canal Zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45435]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to go into history; I want to go into the Canal Zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like for her to make more shots for us, but that's not the role she's embraced. Players figure out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like for her to make more shots for us, but that's not the role she's embraced. Players figure out what their own roles are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll put that in my considering cap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll put that in my considering cap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God helps those who help themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19173]]></link><description><![CDATA[God helps those who help themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46982]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on education:   The devout student is the best of all students. There are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on education:   The devout student is the best of all students. There are too many who are devout, but not students. They will not accept the discipline of study and of learning, and they even look with suspicion upon the further knowledge which study brings to men. There are equally too many who are students, but not devout. They are interested too much in intellectual knowledge, and too little in the life of prayer and in the life of service of their fellow men. A man would do well to aim at being not only a student, and not only devout, but at being a devout student.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/517]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands. [Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23919]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands. [Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat ad Deum cum manibus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53867]]></link><description><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" should examine, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" should examine, not their capacity for meditation, but their capacity for suffering and love. For there is a hard and costly element, a deep seriousness, a crucial choice, in all genuine religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17438]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tried this because in the past, nobody knew who they'd be skating with. There just wasn't any chemistry. So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36097]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tried this because in the past, nobody knew who they'd be skating with. There just wasn't any chemistry. So if we run this the rest of the season, it will help develop chemistry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before, they used to tell you who to vote for, but not this time, ... The management of the elections ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before, they used to tell you who to vote for, but not this time, ... The management of the elections is better today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26731]]></link><description><![CDATA[But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. Thanks to Catherine Doucette -Vaclav Havel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the US does need to be more even-handed in its dealings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33553]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the US does need to be more even-handed in its dealings in the Middle East, [and] more sophisticated in its dealings with the Muslim world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who praises everybody, praises nobody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48025]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who praises everybody, praises nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole worl's in a state o' chassis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58042]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53141]]></link><description><![CDATA[What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is the only true nobility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is the only true nobility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20527]]></link><description><![CDATA[His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marcus Banks had three years here, to play, and he had three coaches (Jim O'Brien, John Carroll, Doc Rivers) that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marcus Banks had three years here, to play, and he had three coaches (Jim O'Brien, John Carroll, Doc Rivers) that weren't real excited about him. I think Marcus is a good player, but I don't think (there was) impatience, certainly not like a Joe Johnson or Chauncey Billups situation, you know, rookie players that were very high (draft) picks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse are leading contributors to preventable death in the United States. By early adulthood, a large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse are leading contributors to preventable death in the United States. By early adulthood, a large proportion of Americans smoke, are overweight, and drink alcohol to excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less of this cold world the more of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less of this cold world the more of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end.  Courage--an independent spark from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end.  Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,   By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone.    Great in itself, not praises of the crowd,     Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud.      Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above,       By which those great in war, are great in love.        The spring of all brave acts is seated here,         As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56858]]></link><description><![CDATA[All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no knowledge that is not power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no knowledge that is not power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5622]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us,  That it ill behoves any of us   To find fault with the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5622</guid></item></channel></rss>