<?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 must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57004]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To each foot its own shoe. [Fr., A chaque pied son soulier.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56219]]></link><description><![CDATA[To each foot its own shoe. [Fr., A chaque pied son soulier.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32245]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you see a person, and you wonder why you don't spend more time with that person, because they're like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you see a person, and you wonder why you don't spend more time with that person, because they're like one of your favorite people. And then they say something and you remember why you don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1225]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They simply aren't meeting this week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40521]]></link><description><![CDATA[They simply aren't meeting this week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  A Christian cannot help being free, because in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/381]]></link><description><![CDATA[An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Caske and an ill custome must be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49004]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll always have people who are excited by [online learning] and people who are cautious. The biggest concern surrounds being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29393]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll always have people who are excited by [online learning] and people who are cautious. The biggest concern surrounds being able to deliver the quality we are known for traditionally in the classroom over the Web.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13632]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64548]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, sails of lead, ropes of iron, the devil at the helm, the wrath of God for a breeze, and hell for his destination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52299]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those holies of themselves a shape As of an arbor took. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those holies of themselves a shape As of an arbor took.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So weight loss is not easy because the body is essentially working against you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41066]]></link><description><![CDATA[So weight loss is not easy because the body is essentially working against you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. This is hard. It is perhaps not so hard to forgive a single injury. But to forgive the incessant provocations of daily life -- to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter, the deceitful son -- how can we do it? Only, I think, by remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." We are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it means to refuse God's mercy for ourselves. There is no hint of exceptions and God means what He says.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who fears noises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13065]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64836]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we did a good job stopping their perimeter shooting. Overall, we did a good job defensively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40782]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we did a good job stopping their perimeter shooting. Overall, we did a good job defensively.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the proper task of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the proper task of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads--God knows where. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62010]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads--God knows where.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance is mine, and I will repay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman was taken out of man; not out of his head to top him, nor out of his feet to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman was taken out of man; not out of his head to top him, nor out of his feet to be trampled underfoot; but out of his side to be equal to him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!  In nature there is nothing melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44541]]></link><description><![CDATA["Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!  In nature there is nothing melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred can be overcome only by love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred can be overcome only by love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may becom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8204]]></link><description><![CDATA[No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask ten goths what 'goth' means, and you'll get eleven different answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask ten goths what 'goth' means, and you'll get eleven different answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41580]]></link><description><![CDATA[She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22990]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. [Fr., La ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. [Fr., La grammaire, qui sait regenter jusqu'aux rois,  Et les fait, la main haute, obeir a ses lois.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15435]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise musicians are those who play what they can master ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise musicians are those who play what they can master]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56848</guid></item></channel></rss>