<?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[I've never professed to be anything but an average student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47085]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never professed to be anything but an average student.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate;  And whatever sky's above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate;  And whatever sky's above me,   Here's a heart for every fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcolm Forbes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcolm Forbes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear  The better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53099]]></link><description><![CDATA[But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear  The better reason, to perplex and dash   Maturest counsels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best  Deserve the precious bane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best  Deserve the precious bane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Parenting Manual -Doc Childre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5247]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Parenting Manual -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree  Of creatures rational. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree  Of creatures rational.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past -Nathaniel Hawthorne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63852]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4825]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devakimysteriously as the sun settingin the West imparts his raysto the rising moon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devakimysteriously as the sun settingin the West imparts his raysto the rising moon in the East.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39310]]></link><description><![CDATA[So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2839]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh  That filters through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh  That filters through the forest, or the gush   That swells and sinks amid the branches high,--    'Tis all the music of the wind, and we     Let fancy float on the aeolian breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and the StorkA farmer placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the StorkA farmer placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life. Pray save me, Master, he said, and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your pity. Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and see how I love and slave for my father and mother. Look too, at my feathers-- they are not the least like those of a Crane.  The Farmer laughed aloud and said, It may be all as you say, I only know this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company. Birds of a feather flock together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For we walk by faith, not by sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14961]]></link><description><![CDATA[For we walk by faith, not by sight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action conquers fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action conquers fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man, To yield possession to my holy prayers,  And to thy state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man, To yield possession to my holy prayers,  And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight.   I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well said: that was laid on with a trowel. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well said: that was laid on with a trowel. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9548]]></link><description><![CDATA[If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54833]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute the links of an endless chain, from which not one can be detached without destroying the harmony of the whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15967]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63838]]></link><description><![CDATA[As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29959]]></link><description><![CDATA[She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64260]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing in the rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The disaster in New Orleans] is not an act of god, ... This is an act of man. The federal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30045]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The disaster in New Orleans] is not an act of god, ... This is an act of man. The federal government refused to spend the money to improve the levees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Titles are marks of honest men, and wise: The fool or knave that wears a title lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Titles are marks of honest men, and wise: The fool or knave that wears a title lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Less shame a greater fault would palliate. [Lat., Maggior difetto men vergogna lava.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Less shame a greater fault would palliate. [Lat., Maggior difetto men vergogna lava.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19060]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels really nice to be honored. But it's not really for me. It's more of an honor for our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29614]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels really nice to be honored. But it's not really for me. It's more of an honor for our entire coaching staff ---- and it shows who we are as a program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. [Corinthians] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5721]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. [Corinthians]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25986]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1146]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be real big. Ten wins is a nice number. That is what we are shooting for. We had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41793]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be real big. Ten wins is a nice number. That is what we are shooting for. We had two losses at the end of the season. We want to bounce back and get those 10 wins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Batting for Vivian Richards is a matter of strokes, more strokes, and even more strokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Batting for Vivian Richards is a matter of strokes, more strokes, and even more strokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1740</guid></item></channel></rss>