<?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[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with anopen one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with anopen one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is more stinking than drinking, but to feel isfor real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is more stinking than drinking, but to feel isfor real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52769]]></link><description><![CDATA[A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it waspromptly drummed out of us in first grade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21460]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it waspromptly drummed out of us in first grade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10955]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is great by deeds, not by birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65203]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is great by deeds, not by birth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the conquest of Afric, Greece, the lesser Asia, and Syria were brought into Italy all the sorts of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2951]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the conquest of Afric, Greece, the lesser Asia, and Syria were brought into Italy all the sorts of their Mala, which we interprete apples, and might signify no more at first; but were afterwards applied to many other foreign fruits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better bend than break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better bend than break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.  ... Evelyn Underhill November 30, 1996 Andrew the Apostle  With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches and wealthy state thought they might do what they listed. And doubtless he spared no kind of people, but was indifferent to all men, as well rich as poor, to the great shame of no small number of men nowadays. Whereas many we see so addicted to the pleasing of great and rich men, that in the meantime they have no regard to the meaner sort of poor people, whom Christ hath bought as dearly as the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or colleges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or colleges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43288]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179  Seducers we, they say; but they lead men astray. Oh, what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179  Seducers we, they say; but they lead men astray. Oh, what a noble seduction ours, that men should change from dissolute to sober living -- or towards it; to justice from injustice -- or tending that way; to wisdom from being foolish -- or becoming such; and from cowardice, meanness and timidity, show courage and fortitude, not least in this struggle for the sake of our religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am always looking for an opportunity to compete personally. I feel this sets a good example, and I try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am always looking for an opportunity to compete personally. I feel this sets a good example, and I try to lead by example when at all possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the prevention of control by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the prevention of control by others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You always succeed in producing a result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64633]]></link><description><![CDATA[You always succeed in producing a result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55785]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fulness of perfection lies in him. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19151]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on authenticity:   Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: Where thou shalt not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on authenticity:   Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: Where thou shalt not only hear all thy sinful works, and words, and thoughts repeated, which thou thy self hadst utterly forgot, but thou shalt hear thy good works, thine alms, thy coming to Church, thy hearing of Sermons, given in evidence against thee, because they had hypocrisy mingled in them; yea, thou shalt find even thy repentance to condemn thee, because thou madest that but a door to a relapse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they don't prohibit their own intelligence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they don't prohibit their own intelligence organizations from collecting information on their own citizens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14523]]></link><description><![CDATA[We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44028]]></link><description><![CDATA[They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man, To yield possession to my holy prayers,  And to thy state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man, To yield possession to my holy prayers,  And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight.   I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little lett lets an ill workeman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little lett lets an ill workeman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/238]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ready to try our fortunes To the last man. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55936]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ready to try our fortunes To the last man. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?"  And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can,   And then I will let you a better."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a tough team tonight. They had nine and nine on each side of the ball coming back and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40365]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a tough team tonight. They had nine and nine on each side of the ball coming back and were ready to play. Our kids kept on fighting though.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9319]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books;  And ruin half an author's graces  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46649]]></link><description><![CDATA[He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books;  And ruin half an author's graces   By plucking bon-mots from their places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is absolute highway robbery and it really does show that the agency doesn't have a clue in getting real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39739]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is absolute highway robbery and it really does show that the agency doesn't have a clue in getting real value of contracts. I've done the math in my head 100 times and I don't know how they computed this cost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't think that, as proposed, this is a workable approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't think that, as proposed, this is a workable approach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see individuals scurrying to get into more fuel-efficient cars. Then they find out they owe more on their 2004 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see individuals scurrying to get into more fuel-efficient cars. Then they find out they owe more on their 2004 vehicle than what they could get as a trade-in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future starts today, not tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future starts today, not tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It came down really to a question of logistics. Having our coach and our training facility here in Michigan, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It came down really to a question of logistics. Having our coach and our training facility here in Michigan, this just made much more sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolution is not a dinner party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolution is not a dinner party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3954]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, not in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285   If I slip into the place that can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285   If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing in the chequer'd shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing in the chequer'd shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were once wild here ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61578]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were once wild here]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing you can back up negativity with is positive play. If you don't believe in yourself, who do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36137]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing you can back up negativity with is positive play. If you don't believe in yourself, who do you believe in?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a scary moment. I'd gotten used to living in Arizona; it was home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32579]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a scary moment. I'd gotten used to living in Arizona; it was home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins,  Pity and woe! for such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins,  Pity and woe! for such a mind   Is soft contemplative, and kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15287</guid></item></channel></rss>