<?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[Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward. - "Mr. Dooley's Opinions", 1900.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great ideas are dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20282]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great ideas are dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lie is a condition of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lie is a condition of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The living need charity more than the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The living need charity more than the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. [Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato;  Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21569]]></link><description><![CDATA[From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She portrayed more knowledge and passion about drug control policy than I had ever imagined one person could know about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29140]]></link><description><![CDATA[She portrayed more knowledge and passion about drug control policy than I had ever imagined one person could know about any subject.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that Aberdeen Airport will do everything possible to be a good neighbour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that Aberdeen Airport will do everything possible to be a good neighbour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9954]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. [Lat., Etiam oblivisci quod scis interdum expedit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16484]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. [Lat., Etiam oblivisci quod scis interdum expedit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He deliberately thrusts his silly head into the matrimonial halter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50444]]></link><description><![CDATA[He deliberately thrusts his silly head into the matrimonial halter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This comes of altering fundamental laws and overpersuading by his landlord to take physic (of which he died) for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14097]]></link><description><![CDATA[This comes of altering fundamental laws and overpersuading by his landlord to take physic (of which he died) for the benefit of the doctor--Stavo bene (was written on his monument) ma per star meglio, sto qui.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of these guys will back down from anything. I don't think they're afraid of the big crowds or the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33942]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of these guys will back down from anything. I don't think they're afraid of the big crowds or the moment. I think they'll thrive on that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64182]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  It is better, safer, truer language to speak of individual depravity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  It is better, safer, truer language to speak of individual depravity than of universal depravity. By individual depravity, I mean my own. I find it out in myself; or, rather, He who searcheth me and trieth my ways, finds it out in me. That sense of depravity implies the recognition of a law from which I have broken loose, of a Divine image which my character has not resembled. It is the law and the order which are universal. It is this character of Christ which is the true human character. It is easy enough to own to a general depravity; under cover of it, you and I would escape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752   The purpose of the covenant, in the Hebrew Bible and some subsequent writings, was never simply that the creator wanted to have Israel as a special people, irrespective of the fate of the rest of the world. The purpose of the covenant was that, through this means, the creator would address and save his entire world. The call of Abraham was designed to undo the sin of Adam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do all the hard work. They distribute the ball perfectly, which they did (against Gaither), getting the ball to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37685]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do all the hard work. They distribute the ball perfectly, which they did (against Gaither), getting the ball to the outside to set up Mike's goals. And they pick up on defense too. ... They are the ultimate team players and they make our team click.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66199]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54014]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John Muir   Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. •William Cowper   No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. •Jean Paul   Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. •S. W. Duffield  Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. •Plutarch   I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! •Louise A. Bogan   A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. •Walter Winchell   One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. •Chinese Proverb   How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward. •Proverb   The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are a new program but we're not the typical new program in that we're not going to roll over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33159]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are a new program but we're not the typical new program in that we're not going to roll over for anybody, ... Bring your 'A' game, because we're bringing ours. No matter how ridiculous the score is or how close the score is, you're still going to have to play every play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou attended gloriously from heaven, Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send  Thy summoning archangels to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23543]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou attended gloriously from heaven, Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send  Thy summoning archangels to proclaim   Thy dread tribunal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't catch him. He comes to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40244]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't catch him. He comes to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35856]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one --I am become Death,The shatterer of Worlds. - Bhagavad Gita.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point, with the mixture of the slushy snow because the temperature is at 32 or just a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37582]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point, with the mixture of the slushy snow because the temperature is at 32 or just a little above, it is heavy snow to push off the roadway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good prayer is master of anothers purse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good prayer is master of anothers purse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people achieve their legitimate goal of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people achieve their legitimate goal of an end to occupation and the creation of an independent and viable state, living in peace and security with its neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is in fact history on the run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is in fact history on the run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a whole group of adults on the drug court team that cares about (the juveniles). We impress upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31173]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a whole group of adults on the drug court team that cares about (the juveniles). We impress upon them this group of adults care about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're now looking at going over there to begin discussions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're now looking at going over there to begin discussions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not a season, it is a way of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not a season, it is a way of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61055]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opportunity is there, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opportunity is there,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [Sp., No arrojemos la soga tras el caldero.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter if we're counting days, work-hours or barrels refined, our truest measure of safety is that everyone goes home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32781]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter if we're counting days, work-hours or barrels refined, our truest measure of safety is that everyone goes home safely at the end of the day. We are proud of our employees who are dedicated and vigilant when it comes to safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32781</guid></item></channel></rss>