<?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[And thus, what can we do, Poor rose and poet too,  Who both antedate our mission   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54428]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus, what can we do, Poor rose and poet too,  Who both antedate our mission   In an unprepared season?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not at all simple to understand the simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not at all simple to understand the simple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22148]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52783]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19631]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love fails, only when we fail to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love fails, only when we fail to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54670]]></link><description><![CDATA[If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4546]]></link><description><![CDATA[All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeatof habit by originality, overcomes everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeatof habit by originality, overcomes everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to become young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1876]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to become young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29880]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanity is a madness put to good use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanity is a madness put to good use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[decided to desist from all sorts of resistance and to stop our actions against the Israelis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28616]]></link><description><![CDATA[decided to desist from all sorts of resistance and to stop our actions against the Israelis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If commerce is the engine of our economy, then advertising is the spark. Responsible advertisers are the drivers who keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8993]]></link><description><![CDATA[If commerce is the engine of our economy, then advertising is the spark. Responsible advertisers are the drivers who keep us on the right track, leading to a richer, more benevolent society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10321]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sell cheap and tell the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sell cheap and tell the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14308]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard. [Fr., Rien ne pese tant qu'un secret:  Le porter loin est difficile aux dames;   Et je sais meme sur ce fait    Bon nombre d'hommes que sont femmes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultures contain many cues and inducements to dissuade the individual from approaching ultimate limits, in much the same way that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultures contain many cues and inducements to dissuade the individual from approaching ultimate limits, in much the same way that a special warning strip of land around the edge of a baseball field lets a player know that he is about to run into a concrete wall when he is preoccupied with catching the ball. The wider that strip of land and the more sensitive the player is to the changing composition of the ground under his feet as he pursues the ball, the more effective the warning. Romanticizing or lionizing as "individualistic" those people who disregard social cues and inducements increases the danger of head-on collisions with inherent social limits. Decrying various forms of social disapproval is in effect narrowing the warning strip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62446]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52548]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26951</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have seven seniors on this team and we talked about keeping our composure at halftime. For us, this was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37392]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have seven seniors on this team and we talked about keeping our composure at halftime. For us, this was a business trip, and tonight we took care of business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If students needed a left-handed desk, he or she would just move a [lefty] desk from one classroom to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30272]]></link><description><![CDATA[If students needed a left-handed desk, he or she would just move a [lefty] desk from one classroom to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where were you fellows when the paper was blank? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where were you fellows when the paper was blank?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The store jelly doesn't compare. It's fun to give something you couldn't find in a store. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The store jelly doesn't compare. It's fun to give something you couldn't find in a store.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got in there and I could not talk. I literally couldn't speak, just nightmare-froze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41894]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got in there and I could not talk. I literally couldn't speak, just nightmare-froze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always keep a song in your heart - it's like karaoke for the voices in your head ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always keep a song in your heart - it's like karaoke for the voices in your head]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest labor bears a lovely face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest labor bears a lovely face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are saying they train with them, why can't they go to state, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to win the district tournament. We want to put a trophy in our case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28817]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to win the district tournament. We want to put a trophy in our case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taking into account the good relations between Russia and Iran, I hope that together we can overcome this crisis which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taking into account the good relations between Russia and Iran, I hope that together we can overcome this crisis which has arisen recently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49874]]></link><description><![CDATA[The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some cases suicidal girls were stripped naked and isolated for extended time periods in windowless empty 'dark rooms' with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28782]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some cases suicidal girls were stripped naked and isolated for extended time periods in windowless empty 'dark rooms' with only a drain in the cement floor to serve as a toilet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18544]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56789]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative symbol of its mentality- the projection of its conflicts, prejudice and specific ways of double-think onto the graceful sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope, he called, belief In God,--work, worship . . . therefore let us pray! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope, he called, belief In God,--work, worship . . . therefore let us pray!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53006</guid></item></channel></rss>