<?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[Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An art book is a museum without walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66652]]></link><description><![CDATA[An art book is a museum without walls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53022]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hidden Power of the Heart -Sara Paddison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Hidden Power of the Heart -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a terrible way to lose, like that. We definitely played hard as a team, (but) we only got one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33513]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a terrible way to lose, like that. We definitely played hard as a team, (but) we only got one point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10086]]></link><description><![CDATA[In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be frank to be relevant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16624]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be frank to be relevant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The boat was overturned, just floating upside down in the water. All the safety gear, paddles, vests, were along the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boat was overturned, just floating upside down in the water. All the safety gear, paddles, vests, were along the shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you -- don't do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16873]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Farewell!" For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er  We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19767]]></link><description><![CDATA["Farewell!" For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er  We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22647]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21101]]></link><description><![CDATA[They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six months later, when it becomes the generic company Wild West show, the price tends to drop to about 20 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six months later, when it becomes the generic company Wild West show, the price tends to drop to about 20 percent of the [branded] price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a good feeling that you've been part of the gentle and considerate repopulation of these rural areas, as well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36660]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a good feeling that you've been part of the gentle and considerate repopulation of these rural areas, as well as creating the employment opportunities for the local kids to leave school and get a proper job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did a good job of working the counts and getting good pitches to hit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37288]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did a good job of working the counts and getting good pitches to hit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27092]]></link><description><![CDATA[How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11336]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His kindled duty kindled her mistrust, That two red fires in both faces blazed.  She thought he blushed as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4392]]></link><description><![CDATA[His kindled duty kindled her mistrust, That two red fires in both faces blazed.  She thought he blushed as knowing Tarquin's lust,   And, blushing with him, wistly on him gazed;    Her earnest eye did make him more amazed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963   The... task of the ministry is, not to undertake some specialist activity from which the rest of the faithful are excluded, but to pioneer in doing that which the whole church must do. And the ministry itself is no originator, but receives its task from Christ. The ordained ministers only exercise the ministry which Christ himself has first exercised, and which he continues to exercise through them, and through their activity in the whole church also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9645]]></link><description><![CDATA[We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, come down. That stars that in September/Looked through the mournful rain/Now set their sight again/Upon a world half night, half light Men of distant years have said/That much depends on change of seasons/On solstices and equinox/And they have given reasons. I disagree./Too much turns on inadvertence/On what seems to be/An accident of hand and knee/A chance sunrise/A glance of eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46802]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were afraid that Holocaust survivors would not like the idea of the play, but I think that the Israeli ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32426]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were afraid that Holocaust survivors would not like the idea of the play, but I think that the Israeli audience is more mature today than it was 30 years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb    Lawless are they that make their wills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb    Lawless are they that make their wills their law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Who is there that ever receives a gift ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52114]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23737</guid></item></channel></rss>