<?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[People are very health conscious. Certainly I am and people are definitely into the organic health stuff because we all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31151]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are very health conscious. Certainly I am and people are definitely into the organic health stuff because we all want to live longer, stay healthy and enjoy life more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least,  But each with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least,  But each with its own heart and mind,   Each of its own distinctive kind,    Yet each a part and none the whole,     But all together form one soul;      That soul Our Country at its best,       No North, no South, no East, no West,        No yours, no mine, but always Ours,         Merged in one Power our lesser powers,          For no one's favor, great or small,           But all for Each and each for All.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10040]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46143]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God appears, and God is Light,  To those poor souls who dwell in Night; But does a Human Form ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8480]]></link><description><![CDATA[God appears, and God is Light,  To those poor souls who dwell in Night; But does a Human Form display  To those who dwell in realms of Day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the night Shows stars and women in a better light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44519]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time. Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave. He has seen the creation of the world. It has his mark on it. He has its mark on him. Both marks are, for better or for worse, indelible. All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if they're smart. Assuming the Old Man doesn't run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if he's smart he won't put up too much of a fuss. A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe that's why he keeps his distance from the start. He must survive too. Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but it's the risk he must take if they're ever to find their way at all. In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children. Lost fathers have to fend for themselves. Even as the father lays down the law, he knows that someday his children will break it as they need to break it if ever they're to find something better than law to replace it. Until and unless that happens, there's no telling the scrapes they will get into trying to lose him and find themselves. Terrible blnders will be made-dissapointments and failures, hurts and losses of every kind. And they'll keep making them even after they've found themselves too, of course, because growing up is a process that goes on and on. And every hard knock they ever get, knocks the father even harder still, if that's possible, and if and when they finally come through more or less in one piece at the end, there's maybe no rejoicing greater than his in all creation. -Fatherhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men. She is author of The Color Purple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I've always thought dying on vacation was the better way to go . . . I do have certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I've always thought dying on vacation was the better way to go . . . I do have certain requests about my passing, though. I hope that if I die in a plane crash, it's coming FROM a vacation instead of heading TO. I know, it's a small consolation, but I'd have a tan and would look rested at my calling hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56957]]></link><description><![CDATA[People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8175]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were beat up and pretty tired. They contributed that first night, but not like they have for the past ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33970]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were beat up and pretty tired. They contributed that first night, but not like they have for the past month and a half. It took them a while to get used to a ball they could dribble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other villages think we are millionaires, but we are not. We are still living at poverty level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other villages think we are millionaires, but we are not. We are still living at poverty level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men represent the triumph of mind over morals, whereas women represent the triumph of matter over mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men represent the triumph of mind over morals, whereas women represent the triumph of matter over mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That suggests that the size of the average house is stabilizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35894]]></link><description><![CDATA[That suggests that the size of the average house is stabilizing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46340]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2129]]></link><description><![CDATA[The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harsh reality of the verdict in the Stewart case, we believe, will enable management and the board to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harsh reality of the verdict in the Stewart case, we believe, will enable management and the board to make the necessary difficult strategic decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!  There is betwixt that smile we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54508]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!  There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to,   That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,    More pangs and fears than wars or women have;     And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,      Never to hope again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. there are no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22596]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. there are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's kicking, so he's alive and active. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42637]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's kicking, so he's alive and active.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9390]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart;  Still stands thine ancient sacrifice,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart;  Still stands thine ancient sacrifice,   A humble and a contrite heart.    Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet     Lest we forget,--lest we forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good service is a great inchantment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good service is a great inchantment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread;  Frowns in the storm with angry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread;  Frowns in the storm with angry brow,   But in the sunshine strikes the blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever lasting night. Give me a thousand kisses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[in historical context it has gotten worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28919]]></link><description><![CDATA[in historical context it has gotten worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 I love my God, but with no love of mine  For I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 I love my God, but with no love of mine  For I have none to give; I love Thee, Lord, but all that love is Thine,  For by Thy life I live. I am as nothing, and rejoice to be Emptied and lost and swallowed up in Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is a source of great strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is a source of great strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song, That old and antique song we heard last night.  Methought it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song, That old and antique song we heard last night.  Methought it did relieve my passion much,   More than light airs and recollected terms    Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times.     Come, but one verse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61882]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeds are fruits, words are leaves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeds are fruits, words are leaves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to get caught up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to get caught up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True praise rootes and spreedes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50021]]></link><description><![CDATA[True praise rootes and spreedes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. [Lat., Iniquissimam pacem justissimo bello antefero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45875]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. [Lat., Iniquissimam pacem justissimo bello antefero.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62533</guid></item></channel></rss>