<?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[Gluttony is an emotional sign that something is eating us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gluttony is an emotional sign that something is eating us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make. -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the work one knows the workmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52661]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the work one knows the workmen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58345]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20549]]></link><description><![CDATA[When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66020]]></link><description><![CDATA[You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30149]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is a wall of brass; You shall not pass! You shall not pass!  Spring up like Summer grass, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61133]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is a wall of brass; You shall not pass! You shall not pass!  Spring up like Summer grass,   Surge at her, mass on mass,    Still shall you break like glass,     Splinter and break like shivered glass,      But pass?       You shall not pass!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is chewing gum for the eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is chewing gum for the eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia- that is, nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who labours, prays. [Lat., Qui laborat, orat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23918]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who labours, prays. [Lat., Qui laborat, orat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's actually fairly critical that we have a definitive time frame, because as we move into the Christmas season, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38728]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's actually fairly critical that we have a definitive time frame, because as we move into the Christmas season, a number of hotels have reservations and bookings. It may become more challenging for us to find accommodations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few people I think fully comprehend the seriousness of the problem that the South and Southeast could be facing in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few people I think fully comprehend the seriousness of the problem that the South and Southeast could be facing in the next several weeks - it's an experience that few Americans have ever experienced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connellsville made the big shots and you have to give them credit. When they got us by the throat, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Connellsville made the big shots and you have to give them credit. When they got us by the throat, they choked us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think this is anything against Congressman Kolbe. They, (the gay Republicans -- including members of the Log Cabin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31883]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think this is anything against Congressman Kolbe. They, (the gay Republicans -- including members of the Log Cabin group), are trumpeting an agenda that they want the certain rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21003]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64286]]></link><description><![CDATA[When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You might as well have put her on a stage eating a plate of spaghetti and put a rope round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28722]]></link><description><![CDATA[You might as well have put her on a stage eating a plate of spaghetti and put a rope round her chair instead of putting her in a theatre where she wasn't at home and was struggling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessite,  And take it weel, that we may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessite,  And take it weel, that we may not eschu,   And namely that that to us alle is due.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  The more vigor you need, the more gentleness and kindness you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  The more vigor you need, the more gentleness and kindness you must combine with it. All stiff, harsh goodness is contrary to Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13522]]></link><description><![CDATA[With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life. Barbara Hoberman Levine, Your Body Believes Every Word You Say Learning to love and accept ourselves is basic to human education. So is learning to language emotion in a positive way. Ultimately when we learn to truly love and accept ourselves, we'll be able to live well and love each other and every thing we encounter. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen, is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19961]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen, is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642  We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642  We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to color everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mold, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don\'t stand for the black man\'s side, I don\' t stand for the white man\'s side. I stand for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don\'t stand for the black man\'s side, I don\' t stand for the white man\'s side. I stand for God\'s side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57004]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65095]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18392]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She (Alonso) wrote checks, gave them to friends, family members, businesses ... they cashed them and gave back cash to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31038]]></link><description><![CDATA[She (Alonso) wrote checks, gave them to friends, family members, businesses ... they cashed them and gave back cash to the tune of $10,000, $18,000, $11,000 in cash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I encourage everybody to apply, not just the smartest and brightest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I encourage everybody to apply, not just the smartest and brightest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23744]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. When they talk about values, they’re talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was like the last 15 minutes of the Syracuse game. We played hard and we got into each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was like the last 15 minutes of the Syracuse game. We played hard and we got into each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6184]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes into a mere "winning" of them to this or that mutually exclusive version of the "Truth", very often descends to a use of people for more-or-less irrelevant ends (already an evil), and can then so easily degenerate into a total misuse of people for alleged evangelical "results" with the consequent loss of all respect for people and their souls, and the withering of the original concern and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr Watson lurched forward towards the knife. He walked into it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr Watson lurched forward towards the knife. He walked into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willie is a veteran player who upgrades the depth of our defensive corps. He plays a solid defensive game and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Willie is a veteran player who upgrades the depth of our defensive corps. He plays a solid defensive game and will be a good fit for our hockey club as we prepare for the 2006 playoffs and a chance to compete for the Stanley Cup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33971</guid></item></channel></rss>