<?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[Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a dear little plant that grows in our isle, 'Twas St. Patrick himself sure that set it;  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23040]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a dear little plant that grows in our isle, 'Twas St. Patrick himself sure that set it;  And the sun on his labor with pleasure did smile,   And with dew from his eye often wet it.    It thrives through the bog, through the brake, and the mireland;     And he called it the dear little shamrock of Ireland--      The sweet little shamrock, the dear little shamrock,       The sweet little, green little, shamrock of Ireland!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never a better measure of what a person is than what hedoes when he's absolutely free to choose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22437]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never a better measure of what a person is than what hedoes when he's absolutely free to choose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My boyfriend used to ask his mother, 'How can I find the right woman for me?' and she would answer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11100]]></link><description><![CDATA[My boyfriend used to ask his mother, 'How can I find the right woman for me?' and she would answer, 'Don't worry about finding the right woman- concentrate on becoming the right man.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pardon him as God shall pardon me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16518]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pardon him as God shall pardon me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1077</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/8562]]></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/8562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet be sad, good brothers, For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.  Sorrow so royally in you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet be sad, good brothers, For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.  Sorrow so royally in you appears   That I will deeply put the fashion on    And wear it in my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The center of the stage is where I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59039]]></link><description><![CDATA[The center of the stage is where I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making all future fruits of all the pasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making all future fruits of all the pasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54075]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One flower makes no garland. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49689]]></link><description><![CDATA[One flower makes no garland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5306]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52248]]></link><description><![CDATA[You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body... my liver... okay, my brain... went.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[just cause? just cause because we're outlaws ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18305]]></link><description><![CDATA[just cause? just cause because we're outlaws]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13487]]></link><description><![CDATA[The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, poor Tom! how oft, with merry heart, Have we beheld thee play the Sexton's part;  Each comic heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, poor Tom! how oft, with merry heart, Have we beheld thee play the Sexton's part;  Each comic heart must now be grieved to see   The Sexton's dreary part performed on thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what it was. I don't think we played very well for some reason. We had some injuries. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what it was. I don't think we played very well for some reason. We had some injuries. But that's no excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money — the root of all evil.... Man needs roots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money — the root of all evil.... Man needs roots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47282]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone puts his fault on the Times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone puts his fault on the Times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your library is your portrait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your library is your portrait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The circumstances changed when I heard the other proposals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The circumstances changed when I heard the other proposals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21718]]></link><description><![CDATA[There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26596]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The business community is in the best position to argue the need for workers. The unions are the best to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The business community is in the best position to argue the need for workers. The unions are the best to argue why legalization is not just an issue of labor but of protecting workers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63787</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[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13382</guid></item></channel></rss>