<?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[Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I felt the moral obligation to help prevent what happened to me from happening to our people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41277]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I felt the moral obligation to help prevent what happened to me from happening to our people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35520]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caresse des belles,  Qui le suivirent toujours,   Tant qu'il ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/612]]></link><description><![CDATA[On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caresse des belles,  Qui le suivirent toujours,   Tant qu'il marcha devant elles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God -- ah, then things must be critical indeed!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are cautiously investigating the deaths with murder, murder by contract and other possible charges in mind. I was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are cautiously investigating the deaths with murder, murder by contract and other possible charges in mind. I was the person in charge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it,  And what the word did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12634]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it,  And what the word did make it,   That I believe and take it.   - Elizabeth I,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have good home cooking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40760]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have good home cooking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First time he kiss'd me, he but only kiss'd The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;  And ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23820]]></link><description><![CDATA[First time he kiss'd me, he but only kiss'd The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;  And ever since it grew more clean and white.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos - they're rebellious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos - they're rebellious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like they said let's put a Post-it note on a turtle and then sit back and say we did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like they said let's put a Post-it note on a turtle and then sit back and say we did our duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12026]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie cannot live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63227]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie cannot live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our content Is our best having. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our content Is our best having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no;  That would, as soon as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43065]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no;  That would, as soon as e'er she shone straight,   Whether 'twere day or night demonstrate;    Tell what her d'ameter to an inch is,     And prove that she's not made of green cheese.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. [Lat., Divine Plato escam malorum appeliat voluptatem, quod ea videlicet homines capiantur, ut pisces hamo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're going to have nights where the ball doesn't go in the basket, but if you're going to win a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37920]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're going to have nights where the ball doesn't go in the basket, but if you're going to win a championship, you've got to be solid, tough and physical defensively and I don't think we were that, especially in the last 10 minutes of that game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and financial opportunities. Other high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1196]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and financial opportunities. Other high stakes will be missed by people if they don't master and connect information.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32313]]></link><description><![CDATA[My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is no vision a people perish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is no vision a people perish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty;  Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty;  Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean;   And here's to the housewife that's thrifty.    (Chorus:) Let the toast pass,--     Drink to the lass,      I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be human? Are we capable, if need be, of fundamental change, or do the dead hands of forgotten ancestors impel us in some direction, indiscriminately for good or ill, and beyond our control? Can we alter our character? Can we improve our societies? Can we leave our children a world better than the one that was left to us? Can we free them from the demons that torment us and haunt our civilization? In the long run, are we wise enough to know what changes to make? Can we be trusted with our own future?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen became a clarion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen became a clarion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35099]]></link><description><![CDATA[To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God heals and the doctor takes the fee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26749]]></link><description><![CDATA[God heals and the doctor takes the fee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48399]]></link><description><![CDATA[To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the outside portrait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53523]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21392]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62226]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm getting jobs because people like me on a show. I'll take it. It's nice to hear that someone like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm getting jobs because people like me on a show. I'll take it. It's nice to hear that someone like a Matt Groening is a fan of the show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved, Where still so much is said;  One half will never be believed,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved, Where still so much is said;  One half will never be believed,   The other never read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62547]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to see it convince others to do it like we do. It was the most amazing thing I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29973]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to see it convince others to do it like we do. It was the most amazing thing I've ever been a part of in my whole life. I think everyone should feel that way about prom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29973</guid></item></channel></rss>