<?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[It may seem absurd to some that all desires by which man is by nature affected are so completely condemned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7828]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may seem absurd to some that all desires by which man is by nature affected are so completely condemned -- although they have been bestowed by God himself, the author of nature. To this I reply that we do not condemn those inclinations which God so engraved upon the character of man at his first creation, that they were eradicable only with humanity itself; but only those bold and unbridled impulses which contend against God's control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started one year ago, and have had four drives since then. At the first drive we had 33 donations, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36040]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started one year ago, and have had four drives since then. At the first drive we had 33 donations, and at the last one in July we had 99. It's amazing. This year we are hoping to have between 75-80 donations because it's the hardest time for the people who need blood to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades! Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades! Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43587]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen sweets are always sweeter: Stolen kisses much completer;  Stolen looks are nice in chapels:   Stolen, stolen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen sweets are always sweeter: Stolen kisses much completer;  Stolen looks are nice in chapels:   Stolen, stolen be your apples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17885]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A miniature like this would have been a love token. The braid of hair has a great deal of intimacy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A miniature like this would have been a love token. The braid of hair has a great deal of intimacy and personal significance for whomever would have owned this miniature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birth is the beginning of death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birth is the beginning of death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew they were going to play desperate with the way they had been playing. It was a tight game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32042]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew they were going to play desperate with the way they had been playing. It was a tight game and we broke down a little in the second. We played right into their hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/379]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3720]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64854]]></link><description><![CDATA[All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you really feel like you're a different band and you're that much better than you were, then you should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32471]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you really feel like you're a different band and you're that much better than you were, then you should change your name. That's a silly stance to take, because you're just going to disappoint people. Your early stuff is what people really attached themselves to. There aren't any songs that we won't play because we don't like them and don't think they're good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56042]]></link><description><![CDATA[A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17621]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44108]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because they come off the bench doesn't mean they're not really good. We're a team and everyone gets an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because they come off the bench doesn't mean they're not really good. We're a team and everyone gets an opportunity. We use different kinds of combinations for different reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game. But I never expected our best score in the state tournament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game. But I never expected our best score in the state tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9831]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9463]]></link><description><![CDATA[As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injury may prove a blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50709]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injury may prove a blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die freeis an obligation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22336]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die freeis an obligation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Jack Anderson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who's a native of Utah, recently said after an appearance at Utah State University ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36890]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Jack Anderson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who's a native of Utah, recently said after an appearance at Utah State University that Hatch has little chance of winning.] I'm sorry to see (Hatch) make a fool of himself, ... He's a good man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41190]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8175]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will not allow the state of lawlessness, the disorder of weapons, taking law into one's hands, kidnapping and attacks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41291]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will not allow the state of lawlessness, the disorder of weapons, taking law into one's hands, kidnapping and attacks on government institutions and state land to continue, ... No one is above the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22876]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."   - Thomas Carlyle,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy the fridge!' `Make Jell-O!', all that horrible nutrition that came up because of instant pudding, Jell-O, fish sticks, TV dinners, all of that that I had before dismissed as the death of our culture -- I realized that housewives wanted these things, because they wanted time back, ... A washing machine gave them time to do something else. It gave them time to read a book. ... A woman didn't want to cook all day. These things that were sold to Americans were actually a gift, in a very strange way. I really enjoyed having to blow that notion out of my head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have been invaluable in the development of the team, in every aspect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32604]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have been invaluable in the development of the team, in every aspect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision isdrudgery. A vision with a task ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22660]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision isdrudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19519]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47265]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5622]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us,  That it ill behoves any of us   To find fault with the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15776</guid></item></channel></rss>