<?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[There is a lot of pressure for test scores and academic performance, but being a part of creating something brings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33339]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a lot of pressure for test scores and academic performance, but being a part of creating something brings about an energy. My students work together in a better way because of the opera.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alis volat Propriis [She flies with her own wings] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alis volat Propriis [She flies with her own wings]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21399]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality oflife that's far below what you deserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My voice stuck in my throat. [Lat., Vox faucibus haesit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60928]]></link><description><![CDATA[My voice stuck in my throat. [Lat., Vox faucibus haesit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secret dans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54980]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secret dans l'amitie, mais il echappe dans l'amour.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good horses make short miles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good horses make short miles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very relaxing. We talked about what made me smoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29198]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very relaxing. We talked about what made me smoke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58707]]></link><description><![CDATA[No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody sees when you are lying in your bedand I want to crawl in with youbut I cry instead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody sees when you are lying in your bedand I want to crawl in with youbut I cry instead]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry is the sacred disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry is the sacred disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party?  Doth it not flow as hugely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party?  Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea   Till that the weary very means do ebb?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I'm giving a little something back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31422]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I'm giving a little something back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59083]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gas was pouring out of the truck like a roof drain in a storm, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gas was pouring out of the truck like a roof drain in a storm,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1049]]></link><description><![CDATA[When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  None but the Lord himself can afford us any help from the awful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  None but the Lord himself can afford us any help from the awful workings of unbelief, doubtings, carnal fears, murmurings. Thank God one day we will be done forever with "unbelief.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23037]]></link><description><![CDATA[My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is your government which is seizing the people of Iraq and killing them. It is your government which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29800]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is your government which is seizing the people of Iraq and killing them. It is your government which is supporting the rotten governments in our countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming. [Lat., Qui sustinet hamos,  Novit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16083]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming. [Lat., Qui sustinet hamos,  Novit, quae multo pisce natentur aquae.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a king of Thule, Was faithful till the grave,  To whom his mistress dying,   A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54466]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a king of Thule, Was faithful till the grave,  To whom his mistress dying,   A golden goblet gave.    [Ger., Es war ein Konig in Tule     Gar treu bis an das Grab,      Dem sterbend seine Buhle       Einen gold'nen Becher gab.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing a tickling of inflation in the pipeline but it's not going to be passed on to the consumer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30766]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing a tickling of inflation in the pipeline but it's not going to be passed on to the consumer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a Child ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62699]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a Child himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to get back to playing our kind of baseball. We need to get every kid confident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38212]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to get back to playing our kind of baseball. We need to get every kid confident.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3079]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What hath God wrought? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54858]]></link><description><![CDATA[What hath God wrought?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53420]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the light at the end of the tunnel, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30808]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the light at the end of the tunnel,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is appallingly obvious our technology has exceeded our humanity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58815]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is appallingly obvious our technology has exceeded our humanity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dominant rhetoric is academese relieved by flashes of clich‚. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dominant rhetoric is academese relieved by flashes of clich‚.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The City Council kind of looked a gift horse in the mouth. And now we're not sure if the horse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The City Council kind of looked a gift horse in the mouth. And now we're not sure if the horse has gotten away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12365]]></link><description><![CDATA[People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52489]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we beat them the first time, some people thought it was a fluke. But then we beat them again? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37689]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we beat them the first time, some people thought it was a fluke. But then we beat them again? We proved to people we could play and that gave us confidence heading into states.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11828]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future has a way of arriving unannounced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19419]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future has a way of arriving unannounced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had the first ascents on most of the waterfalls in the Rocky Mountain Front. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had the first ascents on most of the waterfalls in the Rocky Mountain Front.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["An't it please your Honour," quoth the Peasant, "This same Desset is not so pleasant:  Give me again my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13252]]></link><description><![CDATA["An't it please your Honour," quoth the Peasant, "This same Desset is not so pleasant:  Give me again my hollow Tree,   A Crust of Bread, and Liberty."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13252</guid></item></channel></rss>