<?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[I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38794]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43666]]></link><description><![CDATA[However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11970]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13580]]></link><description><![CDATA[An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690  The preacher and the writer may seem to have an... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690  The preacher and the writer may seem to have an... easy task. At first sight, it may seem that they have only to proclaim and declare; but in fact, if their words are to enter men's hearts and bear fruit, they must be the right words, shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds. This means, in practice, turning a face of flint toward the easy cliche, the well-worn religious cant and phraseology -- dear, no doubt, to the faithful, but utterly meaningless to those outside the fold. It means learning how people are thinking and how they are feeling; it means learning with patience, imagination and ingenuity the way to pierce apathy or blank lack of understanding. I sometimes wonder what hours of prayer and thought lie behind the apparently simple and spontaneous parables of the Gospel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both countries are convinced they're going to meet their future financing needs on the domestic markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both countries are convinced they're going to meet their future financing needs on the domestic markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now there is no sense of urgency and no accountability. When we tell people that they are planning for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now there is no sense of urgency and no accountability. When we tell people that they are planning for the evacuation of only 20 percent of the people, they sign the petition right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. [Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51675]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. [Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small leak will sink a great ship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59703]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small leak will sink a great ship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope they (teens) will be able to manage their money in a manner that is really successful for them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40807]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope they (teens) will be able to manage their money in a manner that is really successful for them and will provide for them for the rest of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a wise child that knows his own father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5993]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a wise child that knows his own father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until he be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so will he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16687]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9323]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just broke their backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36077]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just broke their backs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9226]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught alesson and then given a test. In life, you're given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught alesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teachesyou a lesson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. [Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47409]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54020]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. -Mary D. Poole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. -Mary D. Poole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43618]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better not to be at all Than not to be noble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63945]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is purpose in pain, Otherwise it were devilish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45366]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is purpose in pain, Otherwise it were devilish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65477]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23896]]></link><description><![CDATA[HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47308]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a heartacheNothing but a heartacheHits you when it's too lateHits you when you're down ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16360]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a heartacheNothing but a heartacheHits you when it's too lateHits you when you're down]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All diseases run into one, old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1886]]></link><description><![CDATA[All diseases run into one, old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish though eternal peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish though eternal peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From hence, no question, has sprung an observation . . . confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48452]]></link><description><![CDATA[From hence, no question, has sprung an observation . . . confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand with love comes pain, but why did I have to love so much? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand with love comes pain, but why did I have to love so much?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5697]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grief of an heir is only masked laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51634</guid></item></channel></rss>