<?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[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[Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43713]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Tharsus, o'er which I have the government, A city on whom Plenty held full hand,  For Riches strewed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11843]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Tharsus, o'er which I have the government, A city on whom Plenty held full hand,  For Riches strewed herself even in her streets;   Whose towers bore heads so high they kissed the clouds,    And strangers ne'er beheld but wond'red at;     Whose men and dames so jetted and adorned,      Like one another's glass to trim them by;       Their tables were stored full, to glad the sight,        And not so much to feed on as delight;         All poverty was scorned, and pride so great          The name of help grew odious to repeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped . . . in the individual, and in the race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40595]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like his that lights a candle to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like his that lights a candle to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Love-star of the unbeloved March, When cold and shrill,  Forth flows beneath a low, dim-lighted arch   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10976]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Love-star of the unbeloved March, When cold and shrill,  Forth flows beneath a low, dim-lighted arch   The wind that beats sharp crag and barren hill,    And keeps unfilmed the lately torpid rill!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These other states, they don't let grass grow, so we've got to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30277]]></link><description><![CDATA[These other states, they don't let grass grow, so we've got to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12123]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream, An', taught by time, I tak' it so--exceptin' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream, An', taught by time, I tak' it so--exceptin' always steam,  From coupler-flange to spindle-guide I see thy Hand, O God--   Predestination in the stride o' yon connectin'-rod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stately-sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale;  And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stately-sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale;  And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet   Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier isle,    Protective of his young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where may the wearied eye repose, When gazing on the Great;  Where neither guilty glory glows,   Nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where may the wearied eye repose, When gazing on the Great;  Where neither guilty glory glows,   Nor despicable state?    Yes--one the first, the last, the best,     The Cincinnatus of the West      Whom envy dared not hate,       Bequeathed the name of Washington        To make man blush; there was but one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean,  When both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58733]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean,  When both the teacher and the taught are young,   As was the case, at least, where I have been;    They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong     They smile still more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thornes whiten yet doe nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thornes whiten yet doe nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man,  History and tradition are explored in vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man,  History and tradition are explored in vain   For a parallel to his character.    In the annals of modern greatness     He stands alone;      And the noblest names of antiquity       Lose their lustre in his presence.        Born the benefactor of mankind,         He united all the greatness necessary          To an illustrious career.           Nature made him great,            He made himself virtuous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59817]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is fear that has said its prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23772]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The peasant thanked her with their tears, When food and clothes were given;  "This is a joy," the lady ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The peasant thanked her with their tears, When food and clothes were given;  "This is a joy," the lady said,   "Saints cannot taste in heaven."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will be in good shape when the school year begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will be in good shape when the school year begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kind of got called out in our defensive-line meeting, ... They said that we're getting pressure, but we're not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37272]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kind of got called out in our defensive-line meeting, ... They said that we're getting pressure, but we're not putting the quarterback down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1622]]></link><description><![CDATA[In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269   The offertory is the first essential action of the Liturgy, because in it we make the costly and solemn oblation, under tokens, of our very selves and all our substance, that they may be transformed, quickened, and devoted to the interests of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things of today? Deeds which are harvest for Eternity! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things of today? Deeds which are harvest for Eternity!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   Love... makes the whole difference between an execution and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   Love... makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a freshman and he was feeling his way. As the season progressed, you could see him getting better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31721]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a freshman and he was feeling his way. As the season progressed, you could see him getting better and better. He's more mature now. He's more confident now. He's doing a great job now on his route running. You can see that he has a year under his belt. He is having an excellent spring. He really is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lungs of London. (Parks) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lungs of London. (Parks)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is often attended with danger. [Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is often attended with danger. [Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12571]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52024]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that ongoing year-over-year improvement in GM North American operations should accelerate as we progress though 2006 and, coupled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that ongoing year-over-year improvement in GM North American operations should accelerate as we progress though 2006 and, coupled with conclusion of the Delphi labor dispute, lead to a strong positive reaction in the company's stock price over time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10434]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those things that hurt, instruct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those things that hurt, instruct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18316</guid></item></channel></rss>