<?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[A truth spoken before its time is dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4644]]></link><description><![CDATA[If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good habits result from resisting temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good habits result from resisting temptation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repetitionis the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repetitionis the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have two drivers winning among themselves, the races become too predictable. What we need and what Formula One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37492]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have two drivers winning among themselves, the races become too predictable. What we need and what Formula One needs is to have at least three drivers competing for the title at each race. This opens out the field and there is much more interest from the spectators and fans,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64884]]></link><description><![CDATA[When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not much of a surprise that the job has been given to him. Pretty much since Day 1 on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not much of a surprise that the job has been given to him. Pretty much since Day 1 on the job a couple of weeks ago, he's been working on that file.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy it is of no importance whether Plato or Aristotle ever lived. For the mystical practice of an Indian, Persian, Chinese, or Neo-Platonic mystic it is a matter of indifference whether Rama, Buddha, Laotse, or Porphyrius are myths or not. The mystic has no personal relation to them. It is not here a question of somebody telling me the truth which of myself I cannot find, but of my finding an access to the depths of the world in the depths of my soul. And everywhere the tendency is to eliminate personality. Even where religion does not have this mystical character, it has no relation to an historical person, who communicates himself to me. That is the characteristic essence of the Christian faith alone. Even where a prophet plays the role of a mediator of divine truth, as for example in Islam, the religious act is not directed toward him but toward his teaching or message. But the Christian does not believe in the teachings of Jesus -- which would not be Christian faith, but general religion -- he believes in Christ Himself as being the Word of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't even thinking about a flush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't even thinking about a flush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39699]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the small minority of enlightened citizens who are able to conceive sound principles of political management do not succeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47201]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the small minority of enlightened citizens who are able to conceive sound principles of political management do not succeed in winning the support of their fellow citizens and converting them to the endorsement of policies that bring and preserve prosperity, the cause of mankind and civilization is hopeless. There is no other means to safeguard a propitious development of human affairs than to make the masses of inferior people adopt the ideas of the elite. This has to be achieved by convincing them. It cannot be accomplished by a despotic regime that instead of enlightening the masses beats them into submission. In the long run the ideas of the majority, however detrimental they may be, will carry on. The future of mankind depends on the ability of the elite to influence public opinion in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the topography of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the topography of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46124]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1853]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are respectable only as they respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are respectable only as they respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt; and children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of wonderful candidates out there, and to be selected shocked me. It caught me off guard. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33870]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of wonderful candidates out there, and to be selected shocked me. It caught me off guard. It shows that this award is more than just being a great athlete. It shows you have to work hard in the classroom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51801]]></link><description><![CDATA[He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't see Iraq the way you see it on TV. That's what we want to tell people. We're the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36377]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't see Iraq the way you see it on TV. That's what we want to tell people. We're the same as you, we can sing, we can speak different languages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26182]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, by God, never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, by God, never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We were very lucky. We started Spy at a time when our generation had arrived at full adulthood and wanted to connect to its anti-establishment youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a tiny, neurotic man, standing in the back of the room throwing tomatoes at the chalk board. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59001]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a tiny, neurotic man, standing in the back of the room throwing tomatoes at the chalk board. And that's really it. And what we do is we come in in the morning and we go, "Did you see that thing last night? Aahh!" And then we spend the next 8 or 9 hours trying to take this and make it into something funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46536]]></link><description><![CDATA[When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings? - Craftmanship in Teaching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10078]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smart enforcement I think is what is going to get us there; and utilization of the tools that MSHA already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smart enforcement I think is what is going to get us there; and utilization of the tools that MSHA already has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Washington hath left His awful memory,  A light for after times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61254]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Washington hath left His awful memory,  A light for after times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever longs for paradise forgets his desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever longs for paradise forgets his desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't have all chiefs, you've got to have Indians too ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43747]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't have all chiefs, you've got to have Indians too]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2183</guid></item></channel></rss>