<?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[Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That name was a power to rally a nation in the hour of thick-thronging public disasters and calamities; that name ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61256]]></link><description><![CDATA[That name was a power to rally a nation in the hour of thick-thronging public disasters and calamities; that name shone amid the storm of war, a beacon light to cheer and guide the country's friends; it flamed too like a meteor to repel her foes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61694]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22949]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12973]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the rich colors and the rich idea. It's a very deep idea. It's how nature connects all of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the rich colors and the rich idea. It's a very deep idea. It's how nature connects all of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50898]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22789]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The threat to this process doesn't come from the weapons of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) which are silenced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35692]]></link><description><![CDATA[The threat to this process doesn't come from the weapons of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) which are silenced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free;  They touch our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free;  They touch our country, and their shackles fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually hasa son who thinks he's wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21865]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually hasa son who thinks he's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. -Spinoza.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were selling as soon as they hit the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36088]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were selling as soon as they hit the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26003]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. -Kahlil Gilbran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43353]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that often you see a contract settle without concessions in this day and age. (At the last Central ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32800]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that often you see a contract settle without concessions in this day and age. (At the last Central Labor Council meeting) someone reported that a union took a wage freeze but kept their health insurance. Today that's a win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63809]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn so many things from golf- how to suffer, for instance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17810]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn so many things from golf- how to suffer, for instance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am leaning toward business courses, when I am in college full time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28401]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am leaning toward business courses, when I am in college full time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, let her brother live: Thieves for the robbery have authority  When judges steal themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23516]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, let her brother live: Thieves for the robbery have authority  When judges steal themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall never have it, The free German Rhine.  [Ger., Sie sollen ihn nicht haben   Den freien ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54188]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall never have it, The free German Rhine.  [Ger., Sie sollen ihn nicht haben   Den freien deutschen Rhein.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  God, though present everywhere, has His special residence, as being a pure Spirit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  God, though present everywhere, has His special residence, as being a pure Spirit, in our minds -- "In Him we live, and move, and have our being". He is somewhere in the recesses of our soul, in the springs of our existence, a light in that mysterious region of our nature where the wishes, feelings, thoughts, and emotions take their earliest rise. The mind is a sanctuary, in the center of which the Lord sits enthroned, the lamp of consciousness burning before Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57233]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the time of year finances are on people's mind. And this is the time to think about that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39604]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the time of year finances are on people's mind. And this is the time to think about that and make small changes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17511]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she hath smiles to earth unknown-- Smiles that with motion of their own  Do spread, and sink, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56694]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she hath smiles to earth unknown-- Smiles that with motion of their own  Do spread, and sink, and rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goe not for every griefe to the Phtsitian, nor for every quarrell to the Lawyer, nor for every thirst to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goe not for every griefe to the Phtsitian, nor for every quarrell to the Lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the crown of our head to the sole of our feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48516]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the crown of our head to the sole of our feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That from small fires comes oft no small mishap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54049]]></link><description><![CDATA[That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're very athletic, and they run the floor. They have tough-minded guys and they never give up. Even when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34523]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're very athletic, and they run the floor. They have tough-minded guys and they never give up. Even when you have a lead, they always find a way to come back. It's an ACC game and it's going to be a close game I'm sure. We're just going to have to be consistent throughout the game; we can't have long periods where we don't score.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow the Romany Patteran Sheer to the Austral light,  Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow the Romany Patteran Sheer to the Austral light,  Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind,   Sweeping the sea floors white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To whom much is given, much is required. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21090]]></link><description><![CDATA[To whom much is given, much is required.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all born mad. Some remain so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54679]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all born mad. Some remain so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27231]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27231</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></channel></rss>