<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people.  The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got in early, but that's not a factor. We just worried about today's game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35254]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got in early, but that's not a factor. We just worried about today's game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63982]]></link><description><![CDATA[True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Department has refused to allow the firm to tell its story to a grand jury, in violation of both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29658]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Department has refused to allow the firm to tell its story to a grand jury, in violation of both Department policy and the basic precepts of fundamental fairness,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think if you run the tournament again a week later, you could get a totally different result. I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39390]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think if you run the tournament again a week later, you could get a totally different result. I think Murray is still the team to beat, but there is a lot of parity, more so than there's ever been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fled by, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fled by, return again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54844]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it was going to be a tough battle. They were everything we heard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39689]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it was going to be a tough battle. They were everything we heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54401]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25785]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane -- if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground -- ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Y'ought to hyeah dat gal a-warblin' Robins, la'ks an' all dem things  Heish de mouffs an' hides dey faces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Y'ought to hyeah dat gal a-warblin' Robins, la'ks an' all dem things  Heish de mouffs an' hides dey faces   When Malindy sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, youare a whole, total person, not an apprentice person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, youare a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way tosomeplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you andexperienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From small beginnings come great things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3942]]></link><description><![CDATA[From small beginnings come great things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pastoral charge [does not] consist merely in administering the sacraments, chanting the canonical hours, celebrating masses -- though even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pastoral charge [does not] consist merely in administering the sacraments, chanting the canonical hours, celebrating masses -- though even these are not properly done by hirelings --; it consists also in feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, covering the naked, receiving guests, visiting the sick and those in prison. By the doing of these things is the people to be instructed in the holy duties of an active life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an absolutely fantastic end to the mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31072]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an absolutely fantastic end to the mission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25290]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1356]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was nice to swing the bats and get some hits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32446]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was nice to swing the bats and get some hits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21386]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61264]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've invested a lot here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've invested a lot here,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25828]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18694]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have been right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3278]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want free life, and I want fresh air; And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want free life, and I want fresh air; And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,  The crack of the whip like shots in battle,   The medley of horns, and hoofs, and heads    That wars, and wrangles, and scatters and spreads;     The green beneath and the blue above,      And dash, and danger, and life and love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43255]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that's bright must fade,-- The brightest still the fleetest;  All that's sweet was made   But to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50689]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that's bright must fade,-- The brightest still the fleetest;  All that's sweet was made   But to be lost when sweetest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our advertising guidelines are such that Lowe's chooses not to advertise in controversial programming, including programming with gratuitous sex and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our advertising guidelines are such that Lowe's chooses not to advertise in controversial programming, including programming with gratuitous sex and violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'er Shall sink while there's an echo left to air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61238]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'er Shall sink while there's an echo left to air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16775]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49085]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  Do those who say, "Lo here, or lo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  Do those who say, "Lo here, or lo there, are the signs of His coming", think to be too keen for Him, and spy His approach? When He tells them to watch lest He find them neglecting their work, they stare this way and that, and watch lest He should succeed in coming like a thief!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8180</guid></item></channel></rss>