<?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[If they come to the library to play educational games and they think libraries are a fun place to be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40755]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they come to the library to play educational games and they think libraries are a fun place to be, they will come back again and again their whole life. We've generated a lifelong reader and a lifelong library user.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played Niles defense. We pride ourselves on that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37876]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played Niles defense. We pride ourselves on that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so can good men be known by their enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so can good men be known by their enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,  Though baffled oft is ever won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16668]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,  Though baffled oft is ever won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and turn them into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and turn them into zombie slaves! ... HEY! What time is it?? My TV show is on!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave;  Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave;  Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.   Love tends life a little grace,    A few sad smiles; and then,     Both are laid in one cold place,      In the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that the real emotion is one of great pride, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37217]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that the real emotion is one of great pride,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dousing wandThe lightning rodConductor's batonWill's aligned spineThey find the water,invoke the lightningattract the musicand summon angels' aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57962]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dousing wandThe lightning rodConductor's batonWill's aligned spineThey find the water,invoke the lightningattract the musicand summon angels' aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62528]]></link><description><![CDATA[People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes witch we see reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes witch we see reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672 Continuing a short series on the Bible: Come, Holy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672 Continuing a short series on the Bible: Come, Holy Ghost, for moved by thee The prophets wrote and spoke; Unlock the truth, thyself the key, Unseal the sacred book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all were shocked. We saw it burning. We called the fire department. We didn't know how to behave. Chaos ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28312]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all were shocked. We saw it burning. We called the fire department. We didn't know how to behave. Chaos was everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light; . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light; . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55334]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes someone has to hurt you deep enough to make you realize how better your life is without them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes someone has to hurt you deep enough to make you realize how better your life is without them in it...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44088]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40157]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43852]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness,  Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3832]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness,  Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main worry short term is the drop in the Nasdaq. The U.S. didn't back up Argentina today, so there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main worry short term is the drop in the Nasdaq. The U.S. didn't back up Argentina today, so there's still a bit of worry about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife had been listening to the game on the radio back in Toronto, so you can imagine she was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37141]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife had been listening to the game on the radio back in Toronto, so you can imagine she was pretty upset. I did get to talk to her in the ambulance, so that made things better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything happened so fast, ... There were no conscious thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything happened so fast, ... There were no conscious thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dialectic is neither fiction or mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26487]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dialectic is neither fiction or mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and formal logic bear a relationship similar to that between higher and lower mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong  Because of weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong  Because of weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press served its purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press served its purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The traditional worship setting is both the inspiration for faith and fellowship, and the barrier to it. Due only to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The traditional worship setting is both the inspiration for faith and fellowship, and the barrier to it. Due only to Word and Sacrament -- God's ideas -- is there any faith to be shared or truth to articulate. However, the very setting in which this is received instills the fear of expressing it informally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...Some of reports have called for increases of 10,000; others between 20,000 and 40,000. So there are a number of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31976]]></link><description><![CDATA[...Some of reports have called for increases of 10,000; others between 20,000 and 40,000. So there are a number of options on the table to be considered. But we'll work with Congress on that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to send you by fax a list of ingredients. And I want you to come up with recipes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to send you by fax a list of ingredients. And I want you to come up with recipes for lovers that (are) easy. Because if you're going to spend the day cooking, you won't have any energy left for love-making.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect  For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect  For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty   To load a falling man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secret dans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54980]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secret dans l'amitie, mais il echappe dans l'amour.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18948</guid></item></channel></rss>