<?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[No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62131]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work,  And tools to work withal, for those who will;   And blessed are the horny hand of toil!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41017]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They converse as those who know that God hears. [Lat., Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10103]]></link><description><![CDATA[They converse as those who know that God hears. [Lat., Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63641]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63603]]></link><description><![CDATA[All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9657]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25019]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a better option than having to go to Colombia, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35965]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a better option than having to go to Colombia,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is not innocence but sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is not innocence but sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43193]]></link><description><![CDATA[A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55278]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with infants' skulls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with infants' skulls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He threw the ball well. He just couldn't get out of that inning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41144]]></link><description><![CDATA[He threw the ball well. He just couldn't get out of that inning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54883]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a bachelor's baby suffocating under them; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55280]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a bachelor's baby suffocating under them; / Somebody called him George and that was the end of it: / They hitched him up to the Army.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's friend is no man's friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's friend is no man's friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55232]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. -Diogenes Laertius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price declines will come from improved domestic supply along with lower scrap and metallic costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38639]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price declines will come from improved domestic supply along with lower scrap and metallic costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first half, we just went through the motions. Getting in the passing lanes helped us get some big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34197]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first half, we just went through the motions. Getting in the passing lanes helped us get some big steals and we were able to capitalize on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, shall pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44204]]></link><description><![CDATA[It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, "Are you scared, too?" "You bet your sweet life I am." "Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too." We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, "Who else feels like this?" the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24559]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If youth knew; if age could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62531]]></link><description><![CDATA[If youth knew; if age could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48952]]></link><description><![CDATA[To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called the sum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called the sum of Christianity. It is a mistake, and may lead to much error, to exhibit any series of maxims, even those of the Sermon on the Mount, as the ultimate sum and formula into which Christianity may be run up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes 50000 nuts to put a car together, but only one to scatter them all over the road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20310]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes 50000 nuts to put a car together, but only one to scatter them all over the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big relief for me. Our team needs to make a push and I think with both of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38917]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big relief for me. Our team needs to make a push and I think with both of us being healthy on the court at the same time, we can do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do have aircraft in that area making drops, but with the coming of nightfall, we'll have to ground those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32334]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do have aircraft in that area making drops, but with the coming of nightfall, we'll have to ground those shortly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20119]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who doesn't want to win, especially at home, with family here and an opportunity to enjoy it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who doesn't want to win, especially at home, with family here and an opportunity to enjoy it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61022]]></link><description><![CDATA[All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees  Feed arrogance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48208]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees  Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies are beginning to realize there's money to be made in marketing to our age group. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Companies are beginning to realize there's money to be made in marketing to our age group.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, it 's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it\'s indifference. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, it 's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it\'s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it 's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it\'s indifference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing. [Lat., Nil cupientium  Nudus castra peti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing. [Lat., Nil cupientium  Nudus castra peti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46835</guid></item></channel></rss>