<?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[Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes and values or emotional responses, however "worthy," to make judgments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe anything is possible.Research into quantum physicsproves that a system changessimply by someone observing it.Therefore, all you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31802]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe anything is possible.Research into quantum physicsproves that a system changessimply by someone observing it.Therefore, all you have to do is beawake and aware of your environment,and that enables you totransform everything around you.It sounds like hocus pocus, butscientists are coming to realize thatjust thinking about something canmake it happen. Turns out maybefaith can move mountains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The store jelly doesn't compare. It's fun to give something you couldn't find in a store. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The store jelly doesn't compare. It's fun to give something you couldn't find in a store.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that there is a power struggle over who will control the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that there is a power struggle over who will control the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46781]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What man would be wise, let him drink of the river That bears on his bosom the record of time; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14688]]></link><description><![CDATA[What man would be wise, let him drink of the river That bears on his bosom the record of time;  A message to him every wave can deliver   To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[one of the more enjoyable aspects of the job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42578]]></link><description><![CDATA[one of the more enjoyable aspects of the job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. [Fr., Je me hate de me moquer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. [Fr., Je me hate de me moquer de tous, de peur d'etre oblige d'en pleurer.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44284]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends,  And the first salmon and the first green peas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4783]]></link><description><![CDATA[A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends,  And the first salmon and the first green peas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From our standpoint things have run pretty smoothly. We had all those bikes riding around in the rain (Saturday) night. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32886]]></link><description><![CDATA[From our standpoint things have run pretty smoothly. We had all those bikes riding around in the rain (Saturday) night. I would have anticipated more accidents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This huge middle class has a lot of disposable income. It's also hungry for Western-branded goods. Wal-Mart early on found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34651]]></link><description><![CDATA[This huge middle class has a lot of disposable income. It's also hungry for Western-branded goods. Wal-Mart early on found this fact to be very profitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love humanity, it's the people I can't stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love humanity, it's the people I can't stand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together  With a stein on the table and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19861]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together  With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our aspirations are our possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our aspirations are our possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose only one master - Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose only one master - Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? I thought I was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? I thought I was the only one.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a big difference from Conference USA. Not only is it competitive, but it is extremely deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29648]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a big difference from Conference USA. Not only is it competitive, but it is extremely deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle   We may suffer the sins of our brother; we do not need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle   We may suffer the sins of our brother; we do not need to judge. This is a mercy for the Christian; for when does sin ever occur in the community that he must not examine and blame himself for his own unfaithfulness in prayer and intercession, his lack of brotherly service, of fraternal reproof and encouragement -- indeed, for his own personal sin and spiritual laxity, by which he has done injury to himself, the fellowship, and the brethren? Since every sin of a member burdens and indicts the whole community, the congregation rejoices, in the midst of all the pain and the burden that the brother's sin inflicts, that it has the privilege of bearing and forgiving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(ADR) allows parties to control and design the outcome of their disputes by crafting creative solutions that avoid the randomness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29968]]></link><description><![CDATA[(ADR) allows parties to control and design the outcome of their disputes by crafting creative solutions that avoid the randomness of trial decisions, ... Schedules can also be controlled, reducing business, professional and personal disruption.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Thompson made himself the centerpiece of his stories] to show that a regular person could be in the midst of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33060]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Thompson made himself the centerpiece of his stories] to show that a regular person could be in the midst of the craziness of the time, ... He was our historian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19051]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment. •Bible   Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat. •Gaelic Proverb   There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. •Gilbert K. Chesterton   If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. •Arabian Proverb   The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. •Benjamin Franklin   See with your mind, hear with your heart. •Kurdish Proverb   Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together. •David Hare   Were it not for hope the heart would break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parenthood is one long exercise in relinquishing control -- or the illusion that we ever had it. Postparenthood is about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parenthood is one long exercise in relinquishing control -- or the illusion that we ever had it. Postparenthood is about acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to use the example that building a car is hard, but building the first car is quite hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to use the example that building a car is hard, but building the first car is quite hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13261]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the force and road of casualty. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the force and road of casualty. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4588]]></link><description><![CDATA[My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61694]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47884]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is natural; to rectify error is glory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60282]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is natural; to rectify error is glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63992]]></link><description><![CDATA[A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to make anything fool- proof because fools are so ingenious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16397]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to make anything fool- proof because fools are so ingenious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do all things with love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do all things with love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never put off til tomorow what can be put off til the day after tomorow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never put off til tomorow what can be put off til the day after tomorow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystical union, on the one hand. The resurrection of the body, on the other. I can't reach the ghost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystical union, on the one hand. The resurrection of the body, on the other. I can't reach the ghost of an image, a formula, or even a feeling, that combines them. But the reality, we are given to understand, does. Reality is the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems--but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shall knaw a file, and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam whar the lion roareth and the Wang Doodle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48086]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shall knaw a file, and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam whar the lion roareth and the Wang Doodle mourneth for its first born--ah!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10252]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing succeeds like success. [Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing succeeds like success. [Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were notified by relatives who had not been able to contact the man, despite several tries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34900]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were notified by relatives who had not been able to contact the man, despite several tries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In hell there is no retention. [Sp., Quien ha infierene nula es retencio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19128]]></link><description><![CDATA[In hell there is no retention. [Sp., Quien ha infierene nula es retencio.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43613]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43613</guid></item></channel></rss>