<?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[A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63852]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy makes us giddy, dizzy. [Ger., Die Freude macht drehend, wirblicht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy makes us giddy, dizzy. [Ger., Die Freude macht drehend, wirblicht.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They will be cutting (rates) until they get some signs of rebound, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37053]]></link><description><![CDATA[They will be cutting (rates) until they get some signs of rebound,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  Love can forbear, and Love can forgive, ... but Love can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  Love can forbear, and Love can forgive, ... but Love can never be reconciled to an unlovely object... He can never therefore be reconciled to your sin, because sin itself is incapable of being altered; but He may be reconciled to your person, because that may be restored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13876]]></link><description><![CDATA[To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice ... you feel ... in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character came out of rehearsal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character came out of rehearsal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conscience without God is like a court without a judge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9813]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1885]]></link><description><![CDATA[How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18937]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of thinking independently together ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of thinking independently together]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is looking like we will have a couple other minor systems move through this week, Tuesday and Saturday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32493]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is looking like we will have a couple other minor systems move through this week, Tuesday and Saturday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a spirit of all compact of fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose one could construct Madame Clarkson's very active involvement in these last few days and her coming to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38455]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose one could construct Madame Clarkson's very active involvement in these last few days and her coming to the ceremony as wanting to support the office and the institution in the face of some controversy that's been around Madame Jean, and a desire to be visible in support of her,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only when we forget out learning that we begin to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24580]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only when we forget out learning that we begin to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58711]]></link><description><![CDATA[No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without speculation there is no good and original observation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without speculation there is no good and original observation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life, that we give to the question of what to do with two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She connected with the military in a way I know they appreciate, not only the brass but the serving soldiers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38457]]></link><description><![CDATA[She connected with the military in a way I know they appreciate, not only the brass but the serving soldiers who saw someone who had made a point of getting to know them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atomic power will make electricity too cheap to meter ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Atomic power will make electricity too cheap to meter]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. -Vaclav Havel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26460]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part, sir, of myself, and what remains is bestial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51443]]></link><description><![CDATA[O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part, sir, of myself, and what remains is bestial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is very fond of him and he still holds a candle for her. You could say that the calls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34824]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is very fond of him and he still holds a candle for her. You could say that the calls were of sexual nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most important keys to success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65900]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most important keys to success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, even when you dont feel like doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is a verb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22294]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is a verb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is nota thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is nota thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is happening, but it\'s not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is happening, but it\'s not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Baron's retainers were blithe and gay, And keeping their Christmas holiday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8624]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Baron's retainers were blithe and gay, And keeping their Christmas holiday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66546]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recognize that Ms. Love has a serious problem with substance abuse, but that does not excuse or justify an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35858]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recognize that Ms. Love has a serious problem with substance abuse, but that does not excuse or justify an unwarranted and vicious attack on another human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James Baldwin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13585]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James Baldwin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you leastexpect it, will be a fish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you leastexpect it, will be a fish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60792</guid></item></channel></rss>