<?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[Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on next to nothing, have taken due precaution against ever perishing from hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign. - Essays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24421]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind,  Hath look'd on no religion scornfully  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind,  Hath look'd on no religion scornfully   That men did ever find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57090]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy shoots at others and wounds itself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy shoots at others and wounds itself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy -- I mean that if you are happy you will be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not fashion, it's passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36259]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not fashion, it's passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2021]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45515]]></link><description><![CDATA[A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. -Bill Vaughan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12767]]></link><description><![CDATA[There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55552]]></link><description><![CDATA[If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Tribune, on a long-term basis, it's terrific. While in the short term there's a lot of dilution, ultimately this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34325]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Tribune, on a long-term basis, it's terrific. While in the short term there's a lot of dilution, ultimately this will be a monster success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53508]]></link><description><![CDATA[With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really beautiful for Carlos and I think it was also important for his own moral that he got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40101]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really beautiful for Carlos and I think it was also important for his own moral that he got to see himself in a situation where he was just as strong and perhaps even stronger than the other favorites. If there hadn't been that flat bit half way up the climb, I actually think he could have taken the stage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20600]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. -The Merry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55343]]></link><description><![CDATA[All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle folks have the most labour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle folks have the most labour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an arson because someone has burned down buildings but because we don't have all of the evidence we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29258]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an arson because someone has burned down buildings but because we don't have all of the evidence we're still considering what the charges will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;  He hides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;  He hides behind a magisterial air   He own offences, and strips others' bare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Media: 99,99% of what happens is not on the news ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Media: 99,99% of what happens is not on the news]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the book of life's questions, the answers are not in the back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21656]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the book of life's questions, the answers are not in the back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My game is predicated on being physical, so I think some teams will be looking for me in the box ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36936]]></link><description><![CDATA[My game is predicated on being physical, so I think some teams will be looking for me in the box and some will be looking for me in space. It's good I could show them both. I feel like I helped myself. I think I had a good Senior Bowl, and at the combine I worked out pretty well. Overall, that should help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  At no point does the Gospel encourage us to believe that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  At no point does the Gospel encourage us to believe that every man will hearken to it, charm we never so wisely. The prophets, for all their passionate sincerity, for all their courageous simplifyings of the Gospel, will meet many deaf adders who stop their ears. We must reckon with this certain fact, and refuse to be daunted by it. But also there comes a point where accommodation can go no further. It is the Gospel we have to present, however we do it. We cannot hope to do it unless we walk humbly with the modern man, as well as with God, unless we are much more eager to learn from him and about him, than to instruct him. God help us, it is all very difficult. But was there ever a task better worth trying to do, or one in which, whether we fail or succeed, we more surely find our freedom?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/761]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: "Take two aspirin" and "Keep away from children".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46982]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice. Your circumstance can affect it, but you're still the one who decides your happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice. Your circumstance can affect it, but you're still the one who decides your happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5127]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's just something to mislead the jury. And I don't think there's a problem anyway, because very few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's just something to mislead the jury. And I don't think there's a problem anyway, because very few juries ever acquit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66089]]></link><description><![CDATA[My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time. [Lat., Inprobe Neptunum accusat, qui iterum naufragium facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56197]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time. [Lat., Inprobe Neptunum accusat, qui iterum naufragium facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51542]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24664]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10029]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8331</guid></item></channel></rss>