<?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[Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To ripen a person for self-sacrifice he must be stripped of his individual identity and distinctness. He must cease to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52324]]></link><description><![CDATA[To ripen a person for self-sacrifice he must be stripped of his individual identity and distinctness. He must cease to be George, Hans, Ivan or Tadao- a human atom with an existence bounded by birth and death. The most drastic way to achieve this end is by complete assimilation of the individual into a collective body. The fully assimilated individual does not see himself and others as human beings. When asked who he is, his automatic response is that he is a German, a Russian, a Japanese, a Christian, a Moslem, a member of a certain tribe or family. He has no purpose, worth and destiny apart from his collective body; and as long as that body lives he cannot really die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never let my school interfere with my education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never let my school interfere with my education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast,  Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.   Lady, it is to be presumed,    Though art's hid causes are not found,     All is not sweet, all is not sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no way to plug the leak. The driver tried, but he got soaked in gas and had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35566]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no way to plug the leak. The driver tried, but he got soaked in gas and had to be treated in the ambulance,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43225]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether the weather be fine, Whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Whether the weather be hot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether the weather be fine, Whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Whether the weather be hot, We'll weather the weather, Whatever the whether, Whether we like it or not]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a very good option for people out there, for severe acne when other prescription medications have not worked. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37752]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a very good option for people out there, for severe acne when other prescription medications have not worked. We're hoping after the first month, this all kind of calms down. I'm sure it will be a good program eventually.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been encouraged by the results of a couple successful campaigns that we've featured to help promote them, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been encouraged by the results of a couple successful campaigns that we've featured to help promote them, but the overall impact of the format has still been nominal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get Estates may venture more. Little Boats must keep near Shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get Estates may venture more. Little Boats must keep near Shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helping others is like helping yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Helping others is like helping yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public. [Lat., Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public. [Lat., Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27902]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down And rest your gentle head upon her lap,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59937]]></link><description><![CDATA[She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down And rest your gentle head upon her lap,  And she will sing the song that pleaseth you   And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep,    Charming your brood with pleasing heaviness,     Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep      As is the difference betwixt day and night       The hour before the heavenly-harnessed team        Begins his golden progress in the east.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who work for plant rights don't parse parsleynor bomb poppiesnor purchase antipeople papers.They plant papayas,and peppers.Their pulpit is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who work for plant rights don't parse parsleynor bomb poppiesnor purchase antipeople papers.They plant papayas,and peppers.Their pulpit is the popular*not the papal but poplars.* not in the sense of ephemeral famebut what the people want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54210]]></link><description><![CDATA[That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2438]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This aircraft signifies many rescues. Many men were saved because this aircraft was able to get to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36791]]></link><description><![CDATA[This aircraft signifies many rescues. Many men were saved because this aircraft was able to get to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66632]]></link><description><![CDATA[One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower:  Hold infinity in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20950]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower:  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,   And eternity in an hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever you are - be all there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever you are - be all there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preferment goes by letter and affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preferment goes by letter and affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24867]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work thou for pleasure--paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve--  Who works for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work thou for pleasure--paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve--  Who works for glory misses oft the goal;   Who works for money coins his very soul.    Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be     That these things shall be added unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Create your future from your future not your past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Create your future from your future not your past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace--that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government--for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable--in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11745]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52828]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24481]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being out of the Gulf, that's icing on the cake. But results that strong show they have the core principles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being out of the Gulf, that's icing on the cake. But results that strong show they have the core principles of underwriting claims very well managed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25216]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. -A. A. Milne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard enough for Zach to be finding himself. To get himself into counts like that is not going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30298]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard enough for Zach to be finding himself. To get himself into counts like that is not going to make his job any easier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30298</guid></item></channel></rss>