<?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[Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid wooed by incapacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid wooed by incapacity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman is like a timezone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman is like a timezone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13497]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31086]]></link><description><![CDATA[What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children's school reports. This is particularly true for primary schools. Parents wanted to know much more than just how their children were doing academically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization is entirely with ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization is entirely with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed  As, God be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed  As, God be thanked! I do not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more  Of mortal griefs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5443]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more  Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was always writing, tending to business, up until the last few months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31088]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was always writing, tending to business, up until the last few months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The investigation continues. ... There has been no final ruling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The investigation continues. ... There has been no final ruling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Short series, and we didn't play like we're capable of playing. We didn't show up (Saturday). Today, you saw the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Short series, and we didn't play like we're capable of playing. We didn't show up (Saturday). Today, you saw the real East Providence team. A couple bounces here or there, and things could have been different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48776]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10146]]></link><description><![CDATA[She would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that the Maoists will give high priority to civilians' security while waging war against the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that the Maoists will give high priority to civilians' security while waging war against the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since we are centrally located and easy to find, we'd thought we'd be a good drop-off point. I thought the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we are centrally located and easy to find, we'd thought we'd be a good drop-off point. I thought the other morning, after I took a hot shower and brushed my teeth, we think of these as simple things, but for these people, these things are a luxury. This is a way that everyone can get involved and help their fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1131]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens. [Lat., Dignum laude virum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens. [Lat., Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori;  Coelo Musa beat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there 's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12035]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad let us grant him them, and now remains That we find out the cause of this effect--  Or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad let us grant him them, and now remains That we find out the cause of this effect--  Or rather say, the cause of this defect,   For this effect defective comes by cause.    Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no direct interest in those cities and don't have a strategic plan to include them, but that doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32823]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no direct interest in those cities and don't have a strategic plan to include them, but that doesn't mean we won't in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In Overdosed America, Dr. Abramson cites CDC data indicating that over the course of the past 100 years, life expectancy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38392]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In Overdosed America, Dr. Abramson cites CDC data indicating that over the course of the past 100 years, life expectancy has increased by a remarkable 30 years. Yet according to the CDC report quoted by Abramson,] 25 years of this gain are attributable to advances in public health. ... These include improvements such as sanitation, clean food and water, decent housing, good nutrition, higher standards of living, and widespread vaccinations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indecision may or may not be my problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indecision may or may not be my problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52144]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She came to this country to do her job as a journalist and not anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34933]]></link><description><![CDATA[She came to this country to do her job as a journalist and not anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[About The Sea Inside]This film is based on a man who despite his desire for death spread so much life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28767]]></link><description><![CDATA[[About The Sea Inside]This film is based on a man who despite his desire for death spread so much life around him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People had been afraid to speak out. They fear repercussions; they fear being targeted, because (the Border Patrol) is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37760]]></link><description><![CDATA[People had been afraid to speak out. They fear repercussions; they fear being targeted, because (the Border Patrol) is so dominant and so imposing in their communities, where they're told they don't have any rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60767]]></link><description><![CDATA[What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It'll be a solid number, but it won't post the 8.2 percent growth we saw for the third quarter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38037]]></link><description><![CDATA[It'll be a solid number, but it won't post the 8.2 percent growth we saw for the third quarter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  God frees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  God frees our souls, not from service, not from duty, but into service and into duty; and he who mistakes the purpose of his freedom mistakes the character of his freedom. He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited to enter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him. [The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49889]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him. [The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody basically gets behind Wood. You have to stay with him. The pack separated pretty early. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody basically gets behind Wood. You have to stay with him. The pack separated pretty early.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Internet security threats are rising at an alarming pace, and while consumers are increasingly aware of the risks, to date ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Internet security threats are rising at an alarming pace, and while consumers are increasingly aware of the risks, to date they have very little ammunition to combat and defend against these threats that are easy to use and cost effective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55161</guid></item></channel></rss>