<?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 flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes,  The burnished sunbeams brightening   From flower to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20047]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes,  The burnished sunbeams brightening   From flower to flower he flies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The butcher in his killing clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The butcher in his killing clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is alright to be disappointed, but a winner can never allow himself to be discouraged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57637]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is alright to be disappointed, but a winner can never allow himself to be discouraged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â it's called partnership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â it's called partnership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37054]]></link><description><![CDATA[NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond what it is currently doing. NATO is continuing to do what it has been doing for many months, and that is airlifting in and out African Union battalions ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ as well as providing training.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11467]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't exaggerate - I just remember big ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't exaggerate - I just remember big]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2419]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That wasn't the end of it, either. This man and his lady friend, that I knew nothing about before this, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31246]]></link><description><![CDATA[That wasn't the end of it, either. This man and his lady friend, that I knew nothing about before this, came to the shelter and offered me a way out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas his ambition, generous and great A life to life's great end to consecrate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61253]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas his ambition, generous and great A life to life's great end to consecrate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the little fairy in you fly! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the little fairy in you fly!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had more chances tonight. The defense got the ball back for us all night, and we were able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32760]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had more chances tonight. The defense got the ball back for us all night, and we were able to make something happen with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation here involves bringing people together. The program has been down basketball-wise for a long time. The easy way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation here involves bringing people together. The program has been down basketball-wise for a long time. The easy way to break the ice is with a sense of humor. Not making light of it, but using it to break the ice. Personality and having a sense of humor helps generate people's interest and puts them at a sense of ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is a four-letter word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is a four-letter word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All are presumed good, till they are found in a fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49095]]></link><description><![CDATA[All are presumed good, till they are found in a fault.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so. [Fr., Vous l'avez ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61786]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so. [Fr., Vous l'avez voulu, vous l'avez voulu, George Dandin, vous l'avez voulu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seriously looking at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30775]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seriously looking at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be trusted than to be loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59746]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be trusted than to be loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3584]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9380]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware the ides of March. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware the ides of March.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To practice, knowing you're not going to play, is hard. He took it, he learned and he grew. Now he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31058]]></link><description><![CDATA[To practice, knowing you're not going to play, is hard. He took it, he learned and he grew. Now he's got an opportunity and he's taking advantage of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64934]]></link><description><![CDATA[When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59023]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22154]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52571]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And see all sights from pole to pole And glance, and nod, and bustle by,  And never once possess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57267]]></link><description><![CDATA[And see all sights from pole to pole And glance, and nod, and bustle by,  And never once possess our soul   Before we die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46322]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She who from April dates her years, Diamonds should wear, lest bitter tears  For vain repentance flow; this stone, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2975]]></link><description><![CDATA[She who from April dates her years, Diamonds should wear, lest bitter tears  For vain repentance flow; this stone,   Emblem of innocence is known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist   Paul Tillich can show us that the unity which we seek as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist   Paul Tillich can show us that the unity which we seek as Christians must involve our denominations in changes even greater than those which many of us now expect. His insistence on taking seriously the gropings of all men for the truth about their lives must be allowed to remind the ecumenical movement that the word oikoumene is Greek not for "the Church" but for "the whole inhabited world". The ecumenical movement is more than Christian patriarchs kissing. Christian unity means the unity of mankind in finding and obeying God. Tillich can teach us that the Church must not shut its door to celebrate a family reunion while a single child of God remains outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old ways are the safest and surest ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old ways are the safest and surest ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People realize that what we did in this agreement was push back against the corporation's main objective of turning this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29616]]></link><description><![CDATA[People realize that what we did in this agreement was push back against the corporation's main objective of turning this place into a [non-permanent] contract-hired staff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/652]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers,  With what pretty music   Shall we charm the hours?  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26627]]></link><description><![CDATA[May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers,  With what pretty music   Shall we charm the hours?    Wilt thou have pipe and reed,     Blown in the open mead?      Or to the lute give heed       In the green bowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.  [Ger., Ein guter Mensch, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17859]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.  [Ger., Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange,   Ist sich des rechten Weges sohl bewusst.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't steal. The government hates competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't steal. The government hates competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39913]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39913</guid></item></channel></rss>