<?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[Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure that man needs the help]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64482]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066  [He said:] That all possible kinds of mortification, if they were void of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066  [He said:] That all possible kinds of mortification, if they were void of the love of God, could not efface a single sin.. That we ought, without anxiety, to expect the pardon of our sins from the blood of Jesus Christ, only endeavoring to love Him with all our hearts. That God seemed to have granted the greatest favors to the greatest sinners, as more signal monuments of His mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24382]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62785]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2617]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51560]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Help thy brother's boat across, and Lo! Thine own has reached the shore ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Help thy brother's boat across, and Lo! Thine own has reached the shore]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50265]]></link><description><![CDATA[If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur   All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61165]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur   All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. •Kenneth Clark  You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. •Jeannette Rankin   War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could call 'show biz,' filmmaking, the original arena for outsourcing because ever since I've been making movies, Hollywood has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34214]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could call 'show biz,' filmmaking, the original arena for outsourcing because ever since I've been making movies, Hollywood has been threatened with outsourcing, be it Italy, be it Australia, New Zealand, and certainly, Canada,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5462]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,   Das ist der rechte Mann.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that itchanges you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that itchanges you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53636]]></link><description><![CDATA[God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good, honest, wholesome, hungry breakfast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16352]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good, honest, wholesome, hungry breakfast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to getthings done make lists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21466]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to getthings done make lists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54861]]></link><description><![CDATA[The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15769]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A frightened captain makes a frightened crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24456]]></link><description><![CDATA[A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5581]]></link><description><![CDATA[We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything we do in emergency services is a calculated risk, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything we do in emergency services is a calculated risk,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44617]]></link><description><![CDATA[A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27404]]></link><description><![CDATA[A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17466]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/77]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/77</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The paper burns, but the words fly away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The paper burns, but the words fly away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was probably a 380 (foot) shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38206]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was probably a 380 (foot) shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15725]]></link><description><![CDATA[What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social institutions which enable people to continue and to enlarge the production of all those things which they need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it. [Fr., Un enfant en ouvrant ses yeux doit voir la patrie, et jusqu'a la mort ne voir qu'elle.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most tragic cases are the ones where you find out someone was desperately trying to get help and didn't, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33040]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most tragic cases are the ones where you find out someone was desperately trying to get help and didn't, and as a result, someone died.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one at th' other. What we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20963]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one at th' other. What we changed  Was innocence for innocence; we knew not   The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed    That any did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17205]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music. . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11021]]></link><description><![CDATA[O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago;  The schoolmaster over the land is advancing,   Then why is the master of dancing so slow?    It is such a bore to be always caught tripping     In dull uniformity year after year;      Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping:       I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hot goaltender in hockey can sometimes take you far and we were fortunate to slip two shots behind Gabby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42633]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hot goaltender in hockey can sometimes take you far and we were fortunate to slip two shots behind Gabby today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42633</guid></item></channel></rss>