<?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[Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25900]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is primarily because it is illegal for a lot of the student population. A lot of students are also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31724]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is primarily because it is illegal for a lot of the student population. A lot of students are also practicing high-risk drinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51442]]></link><description><![CDATA[How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   It is well to have specifically holy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   It is well to have specifically holy places, and things, and days, for, without these focal points or reminders, the belief that all is holy and "big with God" will soon dwindle into a mere sentiment. But if these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of "religion".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John has a great deal of hockey experience and success on his resume, and he will help us immensely in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33975]]></link><description><![CDATA[John has a great deal of hockey experience and success on his resume, and he will help us immensely in our evaluation of pro prospects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to education is the experience of beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66235]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to education is the experience of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2844]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate is finding a place where you have no inhibitions, nothing to hide, where you can learn with one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate is finding a place where you have no inhibitions, nothing to hide, where you can learn with one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65736]]></link><description><![CDATA[A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court,  And spawns his quarto, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3519]]></link><description><![CDATA[But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court,  And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,--   Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a long time, parents did not have more than a modest amount of information about what really school is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37535]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a long time, parents did not have more than a modest amount of information about what really school is about. In an era where choice is possible, you need good information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apollo does not always bend his bow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apollo does not always bend his bow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're kind of shooting to have the marquee lit the first week of December. They (Sherwood Co.) will replace the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29939]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're kind of shooting to have the marquee lit the first week of December. They (Sherwood Co.) will replace the neon, repaint the marquee ... and we'll also have the front of the building lit up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18413]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is anger directed at ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2811]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. (0400 GMT) this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. (0400 GMT) this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four from among the attackers (who were killed).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is appallingly obvious our technology has exceeded our humanity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58815]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is appallingly obvious our technology has exceeded our humanity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63684]]></link><description><![CDATA[A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than raiment?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54569]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My days are never long enough. Yet, they seem to last forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65847]]></link><description><![CDATA[My days are never long enough. Yet, they seem to last forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can see the argument around the potential revenue from international editions not being sufficient, when compared to just putting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33984]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can see the argument around the potential revenue from international editions not being sufficient, when compared to just putting the magazine up on the Internet. It is easy to cut back when the print editions don't give the biggest bang for the buck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground  but holds some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground  but holds some joy of silence or of sound,   Some sprite begotten of a summer dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48926]]></link><description><![CDATA[God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16911]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19992]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enought of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56905]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kept our composure down the stretch and made some big shots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kept our composure down the stretch and made some big shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58961]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4529]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65463</guid></item></channel></rss>