<?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[For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19760]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is religion to be thus forsworn, For charity itself fulfills the law  And who can never love from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5709]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is religion to be thus forsworn, For charity itself fulfills the law  And who can never love from charity?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel like we had something to play for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39140]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel like we had something to play for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person that knows you for who you are exactly, a person that accepts what you have become and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62881]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person that knows you for who you are exactly, a person that accepts what you have become and never judges you, and allows for you to grow and helps you along the way is a friend  that you should keep around for a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very valiant trencher-man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55413]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very valiant trencher-man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down;  Each thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down;  Each thought on the woman who loved him the best,   And the children stood watching them out of the town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidential. Do I want it back? Absolutely not. Obviously the sled works for her. Did it work for me? Yes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidential. Do I want it back? Absolutely not. Obviously the sled works for her. Did it work for me? Yes, it did. But I was looking for other options.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. He pushed them... And they flew. -Peter McWilliams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61554]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the transmission of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the transmission of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demons in act, but gods at least in face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Demons in act, but gods at least in face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the letter is genuine. We can't verify it because we don't know where he is, he is on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the letter is genuine. We can't verify it because we don't know where he is, he is on the run. I have seen his signature before and it looks like it. I think it is authentic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight,  His changing cheek, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight,  His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess,   The might--the majesty of Loveliness?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - and never knowing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Nothing could better illustrate this authentic spirit of Christian monasticism, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Nothing could better illustrate this authentic spirit of Christian monasticism, stemming from Johannite monasticism, than one of its most recent examples, Father de Foucauld. If he went out to the Ahaggar plateau, it was not only to find but also to proclaim God, thereby teaching the gospel in a way which desert people could understand. After his death, the example set by this hermit was followed by others who, far from settling in the desert places of the Sahara, set out to mingle with the peopled deserts of the great cities, there to preach the gospel by their example and their very presence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43255]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful, and yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61986]]></link><description><![CDATA[O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful, and yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will ask him for my place again: he shall tell me I am a drunkard! Had I as many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22934]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will ask him for my place again: he shall tell me I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblest, and the ingredient is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would make this particularly disheartening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32298]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would make this particularly disheartening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64743]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56980]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeksslaves and claims obedience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44723]]></link><description><![CDATA[God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeksslaves and claims obedience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was something that Jenny felt she had to do. I still love her very much and always will, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38756]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was something that Jenny felt she had to do. I still love her very much and always will, and we will always be friends. We will always have each other's back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The looming threat of a global influenza pandemic demands global, regional and national attention, and preparation and response to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The looming threat of a global influenza pandemic demands global, regional and national attention, and preparation and response to a pandemic is a shared responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45525]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18889]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, goes for nothing; but, be sure of it, everything is life depends upon the cock of the hat.' For how many men--we put it to your own experience, reader--have made their way through the thronging crowds that beset fortune, not by the innate worth and excellence of their hats, but simply, as Sampson Piebald has it, by 'the cock of their hats'? The cock's all."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41048]]></link><description><![CDATA[I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't find people of integrity who operate in that zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35955]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't find people of integrity who operate in that zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid  (Archer of archers both in men and women), ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid  (Archer of archers both in men and women),   Be worse provided than a common archer?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26205]]></link><description><![CDATA[That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12446]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44761]]></link><description><![CDATA[As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29464]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64600]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64600</guid></item></channel></rss>