<?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[The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43094]]></link><description><![CDATA["Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3780]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from alot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I buy homes, renovate them as needed, and then use some creative methods to enable people to buy them, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38567]]></link><description><![CDATA[I buy homes, renovate them as needed, and then use some creative methods to enable people to buy them, or perhaps lease with an option to buy later. In other words, rent to own. Every situation is different, so I stay flexible so I can design a program to meet the needs of the people who come to me for help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And every eye Gaz'd as before some brother of the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56252]]></link><description><![CDATA[And every eye Gaz'd as before some brother of the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752   The purpose of the covenant, in the Hebrew Bible and some subsequent writings, was never simply that the creator wanted to have Israel as a special people, irrespective of the fate of the rest of the world. The purpose of the covenant was that, through this means, the creator would address and save his entire world. The call of Abraham was designed to undo the sin of Adam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A passerby named Larry, our angel, pulled the debris off and got Casey out and took him to safety and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A passerby named Larry, our angel, pulled the debris off and got Casey out and took him to safety and then came back and got me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass, the Fox, and the LionThe ass and the fox, having entered into partnership together fortheir mutual protection, went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1606]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass, the Fox, and the LionThe ass and the fox, having entered into partnership together fortheir mutual protection, went out into the forest to hunt. Theyhadnot proceeded far when they met a Lion. The Fox, seeing imminentdanger, approached the Lion and promised to contrive for him thecapture of the Ass if the Lion would pledge his word not to harmtheFox. Then, upon assuring the Ass that he would not be injured,theFox led him to a deep pit and arranged that he should fall into it.The Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately clutchedtheFox, and attacked the Ass at his leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That somehow they can't shut up -- that they're dangerous, ... That somehow you get them in a room and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32999]]></link><description><![CDATA[That somehow they can't shut up -- that they're dangerous, ... That somehow you get them in a room and they are just going to start spouting classified information to somebody who is an enemy of the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12264]]></link><description><![CDATA[when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/237]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, hisinfluence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, hisinfluence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautifuljewels of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8559]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to think, at this point, it was just a little trash fire that quickly got out of control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30549]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to think, at this point, it was just a little trash fire that quickly got out of control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm trying to help him build his confidence. He can do a lot of things. He can field. He can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm trying to help him build his confidence. He can do a lot of things. He can field. He can hit. He can run. He has everything. All he needs in experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These weeks are packed full of events for her. It's a good time to meet with people and local organizations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38738]]></link><description><![CDATA[These weeks are packed full of events for her. It's a good time to meet with people and local organizations that don't send people out to Washington, but still have a need to connect with their member of Congress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing succeeds like -- failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing succeeds like -- failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Raven and the SwanA raven saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Raven and the SwanA raven saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing that the Swan's splendid white color arose from his washing in the water in which he swam, the Raven left the altars in the neighborhood where he picked up his living, and took up residence in the lakes and pools. But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished. Change of habit cannot alter Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65003]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66907]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25706]]></link><description><![CDATA[We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are as amazing as you let yourself be.Let me repeat that.Youareasamazingasyouletyourselfbe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34404]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are as amazing as you let yourself be.Let me repeat that.Youareasamazingasyouletyourselfbe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I rise long before day and work till nightfall, when I take a walk and go to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38836]]></link><description><![CDATA[I rise long before day and work till nightfall, when I take a walk and go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many who find the burdens, the anxiety, and the isolation of an individual existence unbearable. This is particularly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52353]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many who find the burdens, the anxiety, and the isolation of an individual existence unbearable. This is particularly true when the opportunities for self-advancement are relatively meager, and one's individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for. Such persons sooner or later turn their backs on an individual existence and strive to acquire a sense of worth and a purpose by an identification with a holy cause, a leader, or a movement. The faith and pride they derive from such an identification serve them as substitutes for the unattainable self-confidence and self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always hope. So far we've been OK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41706]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always hope. So far we've been OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20452]]></link><description><![CDATA[My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26837]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course  Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51246]]></link><description><![CDATA[To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course  Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27258]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The singing man keepes his shop in his throate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The high-tech arena is one of the areas where we are seeing the most growth in sabbatical programs. The concept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The high-tech arena is one of the areas where we are seeing the most growth in sabbatical programs. The concept has been around for a long time, but it's just crept its way into mainstream employment benefits in the last few decades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23533]]></link><description><![CDATA[So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1701]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother picked on me when I was younger, ... I guess it started when I was about 7 or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38048]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother picked on me when I was younger, ... I guess it started when I was about 7 or 8 years old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13428]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916  Whoever loves much, does much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916  Whoever loves much, does much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47208</guid></item></channel></rss>