<?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[Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't believe a 14:37 won $1,000, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41800]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't believe a 14:37 won $1,000,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3071]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57466]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24811]]></link><description><![CDATA[To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Short term memory loss equals long term memory gain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Short term memory loss equals long term memory gain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't follow your dreams; chase them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't follow your dreams; chase them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With whom there is no place of toil, no burning heat, no piercing cold, nor any briars there . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17094]]></link><description><![CDATA[With whom there is no place of toil, no burning heat, no piercing cold, nor any briars there . . . this place we call the Bosom of Abraham.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relationships based on obligation lack dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an up cycle, it is very difficult to forecast the velocity of the earnings growth. Therefore, Wall Street prices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30612]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an up cycle, it is very difficult to forecast the velocity of the earnings growth. Therefore, Wall Street prices in a premium for these stocks because it's human nature to be conservative,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2341]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's a man for a' that! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26261]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's a man for a' that!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The western tide crept up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand,  And round and round the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The western tide crept up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand,  And round and round the sand,   As far as eye could see    The rolling mist came down and hid the land:     And never home came she.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20779]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here lies our mutton-looking king, Whose word no man relied on,  Who never said a foolish thing   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here lies our mutton-looking king, Whose word no man relied on,  Who never said a foolish thing   No ever did a wise one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280  If He hath promised to make us happy, though He hath not particularly declared to us wherein this happiness shall consist, yet we may trust Him that made us, to find out ways to make us happy, and may believe that He who made us, without our knowledge or desire, is able to make us happy beyond them both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has a moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will file a legal complaint against all of those people behind this conference, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39787]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will file a legal complaint against all of those people behind this conference,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having nothing, nothing can he lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having nothing, nothing can he lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love makes of the wisest man a fool, and of the most foolish woman, a sage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes of the wisest man a fool, and of the most foolish woman, a sage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are moved by only two things: fear and self-interest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are moved by only two things: fear and self-interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10948]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pressure can burst a pipe or pressure can make a diamond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pressure can burst a pipe or pressure can make a diamond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant  And Autumn garner to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43792]]></link><description><![CDATA[I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant  And Autumn garner to the end of time.   I trust in God--the right shall be the right    And other than the wrong, while he endures;     I trust in my own soul, that can perceive      The outward and the inward, Nature's good       And God's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soft answer turneth away wrath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48649]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soft answer turneth away wrath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49351]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Some callers] aren't paying their electric (bill) in order to get their medicine, ... aren't getting their medicine in order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33610]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Some callers] aren't paying their electric (bill) in order to get their medicine, ... aren't getting their medicine in order to pay their electric.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can resist anything except temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can resist anything except temptation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire that's closest kept, burns most of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire that's closest kept, burns most of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47546]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have said that NeXT is 5 to 7 years ahead of the competition... Candidly, we made the same assessment. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35759]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have said that NeXT is 5 to 7 years ahead of the competition... Candidly, we made the same assessment. That's why I made the acquisition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3974]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13320]]></link><description><![CDATA[True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812   Relieve and comfort all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812   Relieve and comfort all the persecuted and afflicted; speak peace to troubled consciences; strengthen the weak; confirm the strong; instruct the ignorant; deliver the oppressed from him that spoileth him; and relieve the needy that hath no helper; and bring us all, by the waters of comfort, and in the ways of righteousness, to the kingdom of rest and glory, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. -Anon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. -Anon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59365</guid></item></channel></rss>