<?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[Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41623]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the definition of faith -- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48410]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the definition of faith -- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever--  The union of hearts--the union ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever--  The union of hearts--the union of hands--   And the flag of our Union for ever!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing. A confusion of thereal with the ideal never goes unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing. A confusion of thereal with the ideal never goes unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23311]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you be in hell while you are in my heart? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19109]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,--  Unless he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24772]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,--  Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,   Knows the high art of what and how to read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58345]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37977]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia will search for ways of settlement without sanctions and the use of force ... but Iran must show wisdom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Russia will search for ways of settlement without sanctions and the use of force ... but Iran must show wisdom and flexibility. If Iran doesn't help, Russia won't be able to do anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46465]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: music praises God. Music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: music praises God. Music is as well, or better, able to praise Him than the building of a church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues ofcommittees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22338]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues ofcommittees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the cold marble leapt to life a God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54934]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the cold marble leapt to life a God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say, best men are moulded out of faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51397]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say, best men are moulded out of faults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a reflection of the trends that are going on not only in Winston-Salem but across the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38495]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a reflection of the trends that are going on not only in Winston-Salem but across the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These bells have been anointed, And baptized with holy water! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4115]]></link><description><![CDATA[These bells have been anointed, And baptized with holy water!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9501]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about. Copyright doesn't protect ideas, and copyright doesn't protect facts. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about. Copyright doesn't protect ideas, and copyright doesn't protect facts. . . . A number of people can write novels based on the same idea and still have freedom of expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26772]]></link><description><![CDATA[A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather, to cheer one on the tedious way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56476]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather, to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't ask, you don't get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1352]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't ask, you don't get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jennifer is an outstanding talent and has been part of a championship volleyball teams throughout her career. Her talent and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jennifer is an outstanding talent and has been part of a championship volleyball teams throughout her career. Her talent and winning experience will have an immediate impact for our program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains;  These first induce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52617]]></link><description><![CDATA[From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains;  These first induce him the vile trash to try,   Then lend his name, that other men may buy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45633]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66203]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true, it's our responsibility because we are the only ones here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true, it's our responsibility because we are the only ones here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22240]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Palaeozoic time,  And side by side in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14359]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Palaeozoic time,  And side by side in the sluggish tide   We sprawled in the ooze and slime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How empty is theory in the presence of fact ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59105]]></link><description><![CDATA[How empty is theory in the presence of fact]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only rivalry is with my brother. He plays a lot now. He's getting a lot better. But I still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40314]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only rivalry is with my brother. He plays a lot now. He's getting a lot better. But I still like to take care of business against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. [Fr., Est bien fou du cerveau ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54729]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. [Fr., Est bien fou du cerveau  Qui pretend contenter tout le monde et son pere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Rhine, on the Rhine, there grow our vines. [Ger., Am Rhein, am Rhein, da wachsen uns're Reben.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54190]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the Rhine, on the Rhine, there grow our vines. [Ger., Am Rhein, am Rhein, da wachsen uns're Reben.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32004]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You got nothing to lose, so you might as well just go out there and just keep working hard, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42593]]></link><description><![CDATA[You got nothing to lose, so you might as well just go out there and just keep working hard, ... Hopefully you just get recognized if you don't make Providence. Hopefully someone will see me and maybe give a spot sometime next year, or in the years to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9166]]></link><description><![CDATA[For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart -- then no problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Send not a Catt for Lard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Send not a Catt for Lard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm here now in Chicago doing my own show, and I think Golden Girls is shown three hours a day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm here now in Chicago doing my own show, and I think Golden Girls is shown three hours a day here, and everybody loves it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29920</guid></item></channel></rss>