<?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[The Vain JackdawJupiter determined, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds, and made proclamation that on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1561]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vain JackdawJupiter determined, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds, and made proclamation that on a certain day they should all present themselves before him, when he would himself choose the most beautiful among them to be king. The Jackdaw, knowing his own ugliness, searched through the woods and fields, and collected the feathers which had fallen from the wings of his companions, and stuck them in all parts of his body, hoping thereby to make himself the most beautiful of all. When the appointed day arrived, and the birds had assembled before Jupiter, the Jackdaw also made his appearance in his many feathered finery. But when Jupiter proposed to make him king because of the beauty of his plumage, the birds indignantly protested, and each plucked from him his own feathers, leaving the Jackdaw nothing but a Jackdaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2439]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We introduced some new products this year, and the response has been tremendous. A lot of those ideas came from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35361]]></link><description><![CDATA[We introduced some new products this year, and the response has been tremendous. A lot of those ideas came from products in the south. Our order backlogs have increased quite dramatically. We're currently delivering houses ordered for December.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it's a lot of bodies in a classroom, but we don't have any choice, ... We just have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it's a lot of bodies in a classroom, but we don't have any choice, ... We just have to kind of make do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54844]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20199]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50375]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23104]]></link><description><![CDATA[For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was born here, ... He didn't do anything other than British culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29907]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was born here, ... He didn't do anything other than British culture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our system is not one of justice, but of law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our system is not one of justice, but of law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall in love with someone who deserves your heart. Not someone who plays with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall in love with someone who deserves your heart. Not someone who plays with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seven works of bodily mercy be these: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seven works of bodily mercy be these: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked and the needy, harbour the houseless, comfort the sick, visit prisoners, bury the dead. The seven works of spiritual mercy be these: teach men the truth, counsel men to hold with Christ's law, chastise sinners by moderate reproving in charity, comfort sorrowful men by Christ's passion, forgive wrongs, suffer meekly reproofs for the right of God's law, pray heartily for friend and for foe.   ... Middle English Sermons  September 6, 2001 Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965   Of the access for us, at any rate, to the spirit of life -- us who were born in Christendom, and are in touch, conscious or unconscious, with Christianity -- this is the true account. Questions over which the churches spend so much labour and time -- questions about the Trinity, about the godhead of Christ, about the procession of the Holy Ghost -- are not vital; what is vital is the doctrine of access to the spirit of life through Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting. [Lat., Art longa, vita brevis est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting. [Lat., Art longa, vita brevis est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tease her all the time because she'll need to take an afternoon off here and there to sing at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tease her all the time because she'll need to take an afternoon off here and there to sing at someone's funeral. I told her when I die, she better sing at mine. She's really good - she'll move you to tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's now a phasing issue. They're doing the parking lot and once they get that out of the way, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's now a phasing issue. They're doing the parking lot and once they get that out of the way, they will start the foundation and the footing for the new hospital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. 'Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51240]]></link><description><![CDATA[That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13461]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a pretty good hitter. I'm not going to throw too much inside because I don't want to hit him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34793]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a pretty good hitter. I'm not going to throw too much inside because I don't want to hit him. I'll try to make good pitches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57012]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set the above their betters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ox-eyes awful Juno. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ox-eyes awful Juno.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17998]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that it's wise for media companies to be interested in electronic gaming. Gaming revenue should continue to grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32401]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that it's wise for media companies to be interested in electronic gaming. Gaming revenue should continue to grow at a faster rate than the overall market so I'd expect more consolidation online.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48460]]></link><description><![CDATA[No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4651]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when students graduate from universities, they are not able to fill the intellectual positions that need to be filled. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when students graduate from universities, they are not able to fill the intellectual positions that need to be filled. They are not capable of generating new ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11736]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot has been done but it's not necessarily high profile. What we are missing is some kind of high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot has been done but it's not necessarily high profile. What we are missing is some kind of high profile project.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without danger we cannot get beyond danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64754]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and... SNAP! The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39325]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and... SNAP! The job's a game!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body yet endures ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body yet endures]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22612]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking about a horrendous terrorist attack. ... Don't ask me to play lotto, ... I cannot evaluate probabilities. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39083]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking about a horrendous terrorist attack. ... Don't ask me to play lotto, ... I cannot evaluate probabilities. We only work with things that are proven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lady with her daughters or her nieces, Shines like a guinea and seven shilling pieces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48792]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lady with her daughters or her nieces, Shines like a guinea and seven shilling pieces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're learning now that the destruction was even greater than we thought. What we need most now is skeleton staffs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34141]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're learning now that the destruction was even greater than we thought. What we need most now is skeleton staffs to protect these collections ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â not just in New Orleans but all along the Gulf Coast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that are booted are not alwaies ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49964]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that are booted are not alwaies ready.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47833]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women do most delight in revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women do most delight in revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65419]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evil of riches, then, for institutions, for nations, for individuals, is that those who possess or seek to possess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evil of riches, then, for institutions, for nations, for individuals, is that those who possess or seek to possess almost invariably overvalue possessions and so cease to live creatively. They stop loving God with all the heart and all the soul and all the strength and all the mind. They stop loving their neighbors, too. When you find a person of means who is not either a self-centered bore or a low person, you may know that God has worked a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6496</guid></item></channel></rss>