<?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[So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree  Of Prohibition, root ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16635]]></link><description><![CDATA[So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree  Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Future Shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Future Shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. -Alvin Toffler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53914]]></link><description><![CDATA[A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was negotiating a contract to accept Jesus as my personal savior, but he refused to recognize my free sex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was negotiating a contract to accept Jesus as my personal savior, but he refused to recognize my free sex clause]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Righteousness exalteth a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Righteousness exalteth a nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66519]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We form bonds. It's a very female bonding kind of dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28558]]></link><description><![CDATA[We form bonds. It's a very female bonding kind of dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't say enough about the guys we've got on this team. It's not just the guys that play, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38106]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't say enough about the guys we've got on this team. It's not just the guys that play, it's everyone that contributes every day. It's been a real fun ride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The interest is so intense at some Southern California schools that students might start rioting if their school didn't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The interest is so intense at some Southern California schools that students might start rioting if their school didn't have an academic decathlon coach. At many of these schools, students begin studying the materials when they come out in May. They've been pushing decathlon at these schools for years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another humanbeing. Each of us owes deepest thanks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another humanbeing. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled thislight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would have liked that the wish for appeasement had prevailed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34957]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would have liked that the wish for appeasement had prevailed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip? Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.  These are portents; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip? Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.  These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope,   They do not point on me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60633]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60633</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 sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad conscience has a very good memory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9816]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad conscience has a very good memory]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/674]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night  Whiter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night  Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49374]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through conscious thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through conscious thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we need to radically change incentives and financial programs. It's more about coverage and enablement than anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33858]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we need to radically change incentives and financial programs. It's more about coverage and enablement than anything else. We are not interested in creating a lot of stacking. We are protecting the investment our current partners have made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's love, it's love that makes the world go round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25605]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's love, it's love that makes the world go round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24024]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess which will itself need reforming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess which will itself need reforming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit is God's gift to little men ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit is God's gift to little men]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65413]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9303]]></link><description><![CDATA[An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No surpise in Istanbul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37214]]></link><description><![CDATA[No surpise in Istanbul]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48517]]></link><description><![CDATA[As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: And go sparing;--  One meal a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: And go sparing;--  One meal a week will serve you, and one suit,   Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain,    The poorer and the baser you appear,     The more you look through still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.  . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23338]]></link><description><![CDATA[How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.  . . . .   Like Eden's dead probationary tree,    Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63294</guid></item></channel></rss>