<?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[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love without reason, and without reason we hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18816]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love without reason, and without reason we hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been through the fire and things are just starting to shine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30928]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been through the fire and things are just starting to shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43531]]></link><description><![CDATA[True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. [Lat., Illud tamen in primis testandum est, nihil praecepta atque artes valere nisi adjuvante natura.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him. Knowledge of Christ is so rich a treasure that the spirit of love must necessarily desire to impart it. The mere assurance that others have it not is sufficient proof of their need. This spirit of love throws aside intellectual arguments that they can do very well without it. But if this spirit is not present, a man is easily persuaded that to impart a knowledge of Christianity (for it is noteworthy that such men always speak of Christianity rather than of Christ) is not necessary -- nay, is superfluous expense of energy which might be better used in other ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only one of many who should be arrested. The investigation must be conducted openly for people to have confidence that powerful figures will not be protected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53467]]></link><description><![CDATA[People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion . . . "What religion?" . . . the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, it is good to be "alone".... but that doesn't make us lonely. It is not a matter of being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, it is good to be "alone".... but that doesn't make us lonely. It is not a matter of being present "with" someone, it is a matter of being present " to" someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Banner advertising for us is extremely important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Banner advertising for us is extremely important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the foundation of most governments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the foundation of most governments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred!  Than spotted livers in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred!  Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are someone who is traveling overseas for at least 14 days that includes April 15 and you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29656]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are someone who is traveling overseas for at least 14 days that includes April 15 and you are away on business, you get an automatic extension to June 15 to file your return, ... You just have to attach a statement to your return explaining that you were out of the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50277]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see, the jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still  That others touch, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see, the jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still  That others touch, and often touching will   Wear gold; and no man that hath a name,    By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24572]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66688]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherin he that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43854]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherin he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don’t sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20745]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don’t sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change anything when that energy is focused toward justice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Now spurs the lated traveller apace  To gain the timely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Now spurs the lated traveller apace  To gain the timely inn, and near approaches   The subject of our watch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty can't act - and action is the basis of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No money, no Swiss. [Fr., Point d'argent, point de Suisse.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51063]]></link><description><![CDATA[No money, no Swiss. [Fr., Point d'argent, point de Suisse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise;  Your little hands were never made   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45620]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise;  Your little hands were never made   To tear each other's eyes.   - Isaac Watts,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13186]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxes are the sinews of the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxes are the sinews of the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was and is (what can there more be said?) On earth the first, in heaven the second maid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5623]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was and is (what can there more be said?) On earth the first, in heaven the second maid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again.  'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8645]]></link><description><![CDATA[England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again.  'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale;   'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;    A Christmas gambol oft could cheer     The poor man's heart through half the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The only way actors could breathe on the sound stage was through an air regulator.] You couldn't get out, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29601]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The only way actors could breathe on the sound stage was through an air regulator.] You couldn't get out, ... because the camera crew was literally bolted in. You can't get out; you can't go up or down. It really brought home the visceral feeling of what those men were willing to put themselves through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably be used by the pragmatic man in the street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had three chances to win the ballgame, and we blew all three of them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32329]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had three chances to win the ballgame, and we blew all three of them,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. Thanks to Catherine Doucette -Vaclav Havel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/607]]></link><description><![CDATA[No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a wise father that knows his own child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6028]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a wise father that knows his own child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Run like hell and get the agony over with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Run like hell and get the agony over with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never allow a person to tell you "no" who doesn't have the power to say "yes." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never allow a person to tell you "no" who doesn't have the power to say "yes."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63791</guid></item></channel></rss>