<?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[We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50801]]></link><description><![CDATA[We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The battle is over when the foe has fallen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The battle is over when the foe has fallen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that's part of the calling God has given me -- that if you're willing and faithful to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40385]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that's part of the calling God has given me -- that if you're willing and faithful to do the work God will give you the strength and guidance needed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your views on the world and your intellect are being challengedand you begin to feel uncomfortable because of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22397]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your views on the world and your intellect are being challengedand you begin to feel uncomfortable because of a contradiction you'vedetected that is threatening your current model of the world or someaspect of it, pay attention. You are about to learn something. Thisdiscomfort and intellectual conflict is when learning is taking place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the highest tribute we can pay him, our appreciation for his superlative writing, his incomparable writing. Quite frankly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38549]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the highest tribute we can pay him, our appreciation for his superlative writing, his incomparable writing. Quite frankly, I've never experienced writing like this before, except for 'Fences,' something that addresses me as an individual, addresses me as a black man and addresses the history of the African-American culture and the African-American experience in this country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41053]]></link><description><![CDATA[O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fooles give to please all but their owne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fooles give to please all but their owne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want Cellar Roots to be here another 35 years and to still fulfill our basic mission yet adapt to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want Cellar Roots to be here another 35 years and to still fulfill our basic mission yet adapt to changes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the humming-bird that hung Like a jewel up among  The tilted honeysuckle horns   They mesmerized and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20046]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the humming-bird that hung Like a jewel up among  The tilted honeysuckle horns   They mesmerized and swung    In the palpitating air,     Drowsed with odors strange and rare.      And, with whispered laughter, slipped away       And let him hanging there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66340]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When great poets sing, Into the night new constellations spring,  With music in the air that dulls the craft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55314]]></link><description><![CDATA[When great poets sing, Into the night new constellations spring,  With music in the air that dulls the craft   Of rhetoric. So when Shakespeare sang or laughed    The world with long, sweet Alpine echoes thrilled     Voiceless to scholars' tongues no muse had filled      With melody divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of optimism. We proceeded to live these propositions, though we would not have stated them as blandly as I set them forth here:   Man is inherently good.  Individual man can carve out his own salvation with the help of education and society through progressively better government.  Reality and values worth searching for lie in the material world that science is steadily teaching us to analyze, catalogue, and measure. While we do not deny the existence of inner values, we relegate them to second place.  The purpose of life is happiness, [which] we define in terms of enjoyable activity, friends, and the accumulation of material objects.  The pain and evil of life -- such as ignorance, poverty, selfishness, hatred, greed, lust for power -- are caused by factors in the external world; therefore, the cure lies in the reforming of human institutions and the bettering of environmental conditions.  As science and technology remove poverty and lift from us the burden of physical existence, we shall automatically become finer persons, seeing for ourselves the value of living the Golden Rule.  In time, the rest of the world will appreciate the demonstration that the American way of life is best. They will then seek for themselves the good life of freedom and prosperity. This will be the greatest impetus toward an end of global conflict.  The way to get along with people is to beware of religious dictums and dogma. The ideal is to be a nice person and to live by the Creed of Tolerance. Thus we offend few people. We live and let live. This is the American Way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men say, "How are we to act, what are we to teach our children, now that we are no longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men say, "How are we to act, what are we to teach our children, now that we are no longer Christians?" You see, gentlemen, how I would answer that question. You are deceived in thinking that the morality of your father was based on Christianity. On the contrary, Christianity presupposed it. That morality stands exactly where it did; its basis has not been withdrawn, for, in a sense, it never had a basis. The ultimate ethical injunctions have always been premises, never conclusions. Kant was perfectly right on that point at least, the imperative is categorical. Unless the ethical is assumed from the outset, no argument will bring you to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our parking lot frequently (has) people cross through it. It could be anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our parking lot frequently (has) people cross through it. It could be anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because th]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62107]]></link><description><![CDATA["Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surgery he had last year was the second one he's had and it is just a problem. He is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surgery he had last year was the second one he's had and it is just a problem. He is no longer playing. He's in school and he'll finish the semester but he just doesn't feel comfortable with the shoulder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues ofcommittees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22338]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues ofcommittees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52838]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29006]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5241]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11941]]></link><description><![CDATA[About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63630]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In years past, we've won one or two [district] games per year. We've known that we've had talent every year. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28210]]></link><description><![CDATA[In years past, we've won one or two [district] games per year. We've known that we've had talent every year. We've just never been able to put it together and play as a team. This year we've played as a team. Everybody's so excited about going to the playoffs. We just want to keep that hope alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gayly the troubadour Touched his guitar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gayly the troubadour Touched his guitar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54998]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it--peace! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it--peace!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17572]]></link><description><![CDATA[For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence, bashful cunning, And prompt me, plain and holy innocence! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence, bashful cunning, And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't make a habit of pointing out other people's flaws. You're not perfect either. Look in the mirror before you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't make a habit of pointing out other people's flaws. You're not perfect either. Look in the mirror before you look out the window.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune sides with him who dares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune sides with him who dares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very relevant to the students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32674]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very relevant to the students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really not worried about it. We're going to start the game and see how it's going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really not worried about it. We're going to start the game and see how it's going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45529]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's just goofy. Making it easier for the accounting side shouldn't even be a consideration. They ought to be more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38478]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's just goofy. Making it easier for the accounting side shouldn't even be a consideration. They ought to be more concerned about students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8667]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We looked at the future map and it said agriculture. I thought the people here want to preserve farm land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We looked at the future map and it said agriculture. I thought the people here want to preserve farm land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42655</guid></item></channel></rss>