<?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[No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [Lat., Nemo unquam sine magna spe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20606]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [Lat., Nemo unquam sine magna spe immortalitatatis se pro patria offerret ad mortem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.   - Theodore Roosevelt,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They ran the ball on us all game two years ago. They pretty much ran the ball on us at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37436]]></link><description><![CDATA[They ran the ball on us all game two years ago. They pretty much ran the ball on us at will. It was going downhill on us every play. It just wasn't good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3468]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock, to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind, you draw large and startling figures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a dream, sweet child! a waking dream, A blissful certainty, a vision bright,  Of that rare happiness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60879]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a dream, sweet child! a waking dream, A blissful certainty, a vision bright,  Of that rare happiness, which even on earth   Heaven gives to those it loves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we get out in the open court, there's some unbelievable things the girls have done this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we get out in the open court, there's some unbelievable things the girls have done this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone puts his fault on the Times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone puts his fault on the Times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a big urn in the billiard room and it was black, but I wondered if it was brass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30141]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a big urn in the billiard room and it was black, but I wondered if it was brass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make acute and balanced observers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any combination of alcohol and gasoline is very unforgiving of water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any combination of alcohol and gasoline is very unforgiving of water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10112]]></link><description><![CDATA[I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It costs employers major money if employees leave their campus for extended periods of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It costs employers major money if employees leave their campus for extended periods of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18839]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred. "Which wolf will win, grandfather?" asks the young boy. "Whichever one I feed," is the reply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been some spotty signs of a cooling in the broader housing market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39113]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been some spotty signs of a cooling in the broader housing market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!  . . . .   Endless torments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!  . . . .   Endless torments dwell above thee:    Yet who would live, and live without thee!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't want 5 a.m. wakeup calls with a front loader moving in front of someone's driveway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34543]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't want 5 a.m. wakeup calls with a front loader moving in front of someone's driveway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29550]]></link><description><![CDATA[However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had our chance. We were up by two games with three to play ? that's all you can ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39823]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had our chance. We were up by two games with three to play ? that's all you can ask for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians awake, salute the happy morn Whereon the Saviour of the world was born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians awake, salute the happy morn Whereon the Saviour of the world was born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all -- indeed, pay no attention whatever to His commandments and His will for one's life. One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45618]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's special from the fact Sarah stuck with basketball, knowing she is not going to play a lot. I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41806]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's special from the fact Sarah stuck with basketball, knowing she is not going to play a lot. I have a lot of admiration for her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History knows no resting place and no plateaus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19482]]></link><description><![CDATA[History knows no resting place and no plateaus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good man never dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20603]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good man never dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made it our absolute mission to do regional coverage, not just coverage from one city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39429]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made it our absolute mission to do regional coverage, not just coverage from one city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55508]]></link><description><![CDATA[But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who loves me loves my dog. [Lat., Qui m'aime il aime mon chien.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who loves me loves my dog. [Lat., Qui m'aime il aime mon chien.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a sheltering tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a sheltering tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9093</guid></item></channel></rss>