<?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[Dirigo [I lead] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dirigo [I lead]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed  Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed  Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world,   And a wide realm of wild reality,    And dreams in their development have breath,     And tears and tortures, and the touch of joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? [Lat., Stemmata quid faciunt, quid prodest, Pontice, longo,  Sanguine censeri pictosque ostendere vultus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is for us, in whom the Christian Church is at this moment partially embodied, to declare that Christianity, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7709]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is for us, in whom the Christian Church is at this moment partially embodied, to declare that Christianity, that the Christian faith can do that for the world which the world needs. You say, "What can I do?" You can furnish one Christian life. You can furnish a life so faithful to every duty, so ready for every service, so determined not to commit every sin, that the great Christian Church shall be the stronger for your living in it, and the problem of the world be answered, and a certain great peace come into this poor, perplexed phase of our humanity as it sees that new revelation of what Christianity is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16480]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!" [Lat., Intrantis medici facies tres esse videntur  Aegrotanti; hominis, Daemonis, atque Dei.   Cum primum accessit medicus dixitque salutem,    En Deus aut custos angelus, aeger ait.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see the right and not to do it is cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10467]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've always wanted to (unionize) and now they legally can. It's obviously going to cost us more money, but we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41745]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've always wanted to (unionize) and now they legally can. It's obviously going to cost us more money, but we're going to try to make a positive out of it, ... We will have a professional working relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This means that five days a week, we are sending our school children into environments where there is an abundance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30852]]></link><description><![CDATA[This means that five days a week, we are sending our school children into environments where there is an abundance of high-calorie, low-nutritional-quality, inexpensive food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was a good war or a bad peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45915]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was a good war or a bad peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. [Lat., Aut ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20916]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. [Lat., Aut potentior te, aut imbecillior laesit: si imbecillior, barce ille; si potentior, tibi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. - Points of View. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. - Points of View.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64282]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My tables--meet it is I set it down That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.  At ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56687]]></link><description><![CDATA[My tables--meet it is I set it down That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.  At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintained as gained,  And he that stands upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19172]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintained as gained,  And he that stands upon a slippery place   Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very surprised to receive the award. As a coach, you're only as good as your players. I've been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40308]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very surprised to receive the award. As a coach, you're only as good as your players. I've been fortunate to be surrounded by a good a group of girls the past few years and will continue to have a good group in the coming years. All of the credit goes to the girls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18683]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FedEx's report not only helped lift the transport sector, but the entire market. In the absence of major negative news, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37903]]></link><description><![CDATA[FedEx's report not only helped lift the transport sector, but the entire market. In the absence of major negative news, we may see another rally between now and the end of the year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a property listed with 'For Sale' signs outside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40647]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a property listed with 'For Sale' signs outside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25342]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness yields tostarlight,to the light of the risingsun, and to thelight of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness yields tostarlight,to the light of the risingsun, and to thelight of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think men are a beautiful creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think men are a beautiful creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some hae meat, and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it;  But we hae meat, and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some hae meat, and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it;  But we hae meat, and we can eat,   And sae the Lord be thankit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65884]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24214]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was Andy Warhol a bisexual? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Was Andy Warhol a bisexual?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong of his hands, and strong on his legs, but still of his tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong of his hands, and strong on his legs, but still of his tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17974]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a dog he hunts in dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a dog he hunts in dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15658]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43576]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, during those months the airmen and ship crews of the U.S. Navy learned the lessons we needed to win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36864]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, during those months the airmen and ship crews of the U.S. Navy learned the lessons we needed to win the Battle of Midway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   Christians in their relationships should be the most human people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   Christians in their relationships should be the most human people you will ever see. This speaks for God in an age of inhumanity and impersonality and facelessness. When people look at us, their reaction should be, "These are human people" -- human, because we know that we differ from the animal, the plant, and the machine; and that personality is native to what has always been [human]. If they cannot look upon us and say, "They are real people", nothing else is enough. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47375]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47375</guid></item></channel></rss>