<?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[Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a variety of intelligence and we're sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1684]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a variety of intelligence and we're sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this year. We've learned lessons from Iraq and we're getting improved intelligence from the Afghan people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's definitely a lot more pressure there [the Olympics], but I'm really looking forward to it. I think it's going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42087]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's definitely a lot more pressure there [the Olympics], but I'm really looking forward to it. I think it's going to be a really good experience. I can remember looking back watching my first Olympics when I was like 10 years old, so it's cool to be a part of it now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could I love less, I should be happier now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could I love less, I should be happier now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26697]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je voudrais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je voudrais bien voir la grimace qu'il fait a cette heure sur cet echafaud.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60309]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your goalie is hot and you keep it close anything can happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32866]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your goalie is hot and you keep it close anything can happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6051]]></link><description><![CDATA[But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret sympathetic aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret sympathetic aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sports do not build character. They reveal it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24905]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47242]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's interesting to have been on the one side a chaplain, intern in the prison system and now fighting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40384]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's interesting to have been on the one side a chaplain, intern in the prison system and now fighting to keep people out of prison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27966]]></link><description><![CDATA[For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovators are inevitably controversial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovators are inevitably controversial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen.  All manners take a tincture from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen.  All manners take a tincture from our own;   Or come discolor'd through out passions shown;    Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies,     Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They came in shifts. It went on like that for hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42000]]></link><description><![CDATA[They came in shifts. It went on like that for hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time the U.S. bond market has not been leading other bond markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28438]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time the U.S. bond market has not been leading other bond markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolved: never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolved: never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pulled it out. It's too hard to handle that whole thing right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33630]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pulled it out. It's too hard to handle that whole thing right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's definitely an element of pride there. Outside the postseason, if you ask our guys which tournament they would like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30886]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's definitely an element of pride there. Outside the postseason, if you ask our guys which tournament they would like to win, they're probably say this one. I think everyone wants to do well at home and protect the home turf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it. [Lat., Arcanum neque tu scrutaveris ullius unquam, commissumve teges et vino tortus et ira.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like part of my family. It's like one of my children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39753]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like part of my family. It's like one of my children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/120]]></link><description><![CDATA[These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today, Abortion...For the pregnant women who don't want their children, give them to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The murmur that springs From the growing of grass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The murmur that springs From the growing of grass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66826]]></link><description><![CDATA[What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill! Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?  Lord help 'em, how I pities them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44007]]></link><description><![CDATA[A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill! Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?  Lord help 'em, how I pities them   Unhappy folks on shore now!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53156]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!  [Lat., O caeca nocentum consilia!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!  [Lat., O caeca nocentum consilia!   O semper timidum scelus!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25260]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.   - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28043]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is the heart's memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is the heart's memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever hath an interest in any one promise hath an interest in them all, and in the fountain-love from whence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever hath an interest in any one promise hath an interest in them all, and in the fountain-love from whence they flow. He to whom any drop of their sweetness floweth may follow it up into the spring. Were we wise, each taste of mercy would lead us to the ocean of love. Have we any hold on a promise? We may get upon it, and it will bring us to the main, Christ Himself and the Spirit, and so into the bosom of the Father. It is our folly to abide upon a little, which is given us merely to make us press for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your spirit is the true shield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your spirit is the true shield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16563]]></link><description><![CDATA[To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16563</guid></item></channel></rss>