<?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[People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65800]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While guys are doing repairs in one location, another part of the crew is looting another location in the city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30725]]></link><description><![CDATA[While guys are doing repairs in one location, another part of the crew is looting another location in the city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think it's a good step for Afghanistan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40047]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think it's a good step for Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3939]]></link><description><![CDATA[A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8290]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread,  And they brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread,  And they brought back bodies of living men,   But their eyes were fold and dead.    So, Buddy no matter what else the fame,     No matter what else the prize,      I want you to come back thru The Flame       With the boy-look still in your eyes!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vices are often habits rather than passions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vices are often habits rather than passions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6117]]></link><description><![CDATA[No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like they said let's put a Post-it note on a turtle and then sit back and say we did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like they said let's put a Post-it note on a turtle and then sit back and say we did our duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books had instant replay long before televised sports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into a mouth shut flies flie not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into a mouth shut flies flie not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17643]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowed for a time. Now, He's called you home, I'm sad and I shed tears. Yet, I'm glad He loaned you to me and we had these many years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[30,000 baby chicks were sent through a San Diego factory farm chipper by workers too tired to continue individual strangling.That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/259]]></link><description><![CDATA[30,000 baby chicks were sent through a San Diego factory farm chipper by workers too tired to continue individual strangling.That made the chipper a chicker.. while the little drum with swirling knives into which some factories drop baby chicks is called an eviscerator.. and what is the namefor those tiny mouse sized guillotines Purina as owner of the magazine Lab Animal advertised for decapitationof captive expendable lab animals?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me therefore studious of laborious ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me therefore studious of laborious ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the ball is snapped, wherever it goes, that's where he is. Pierce is a great leader for our defense. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31307]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the ball is snapped, wherever it goes, that's where he is. Pierce is a great leader for our defense. He is a quiet kid off the field, but the kids look up to him and respect him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized the parts, the more elaborate co-ordination is needed to create a well-balanced whole. The ultimate criterion of the value of a functional whole is the degree of its internal harmony or integratedness, whether the "functional whole" is a biological species or a civilization or an individual. A whole is defined by the pattern of relations between its parts, not by the sum of its parts; and a civilization is not defined by the sum of its science, technology, art and social organization, but by the total pattern which they form, and the degree of harmonious integration in that pattern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found significant problems, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found significant problems, the expedited removal process has been expanded over and over again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healer of others, himself diseased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50916]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healer of others, himself diseased.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14711]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine. [Fr., Le veritable Amphitryon  Est l'Amphitryon ou l'on dine.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine. [Fr., Le veritable Amphitryon  Est l'Amphitryon ou l'on dine.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot. (on his decision not to vote) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot. (on his decision not to vote)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42272]]></link><description><![CDATA[He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They dance, they revel, and they sing, Till the rude turrets shake and ring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51110]]></link><description><![CDATA[They dance, they revel, and they sing, Till the rude turrets shake and ring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These guys are going to be the first people that play in the Wells Fargo Arena in a game that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32790]]></link><description><![CDATA[These guys are going to be the first people that play in the Wells Fargo Arena in a game that matters. It's something they'll remember and take with them the rest of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little wind that hardly shook The silver of the sleeping brook  Blew the gold hair about her eyes,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little wind that hardly shook The silver of the sleeping brook  Blew the gold hair about her eyes,--   A mystery of mysteries.    So he must often pause, and stoop,     An all the wanton ringlets loop      Behind her dainty ear--emprise       Of slow event and many sighs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53315]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small companies are the real innovators in this market, ... but if the burdens around IP become too heavy, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small companies are the real innovators in this market, ... but if the burdens around IP become too heavy, and there are too many lawsuits, those companies will withdraw from the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, self-effacing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34941]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, self-effacing, overly modest person who left many flashier lawyers in his wake as he persuaded judges and juries alike that what he said could be trusted and should carry the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisibleintelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is alsoflowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisibleintelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is alsoflowing through you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19221]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanging and wiving go by destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanging and wiving go by destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of money is the root of all evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42997]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of money is the root of all evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are getting is a knee-jerk reaction to the drop in oil prices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37906]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are getting is a knee-jerk reaction to the drop in oil prices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15658]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52170]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite...You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though those that are betrayed Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor  Stands in worse case of woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though those that are betrayed Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor  Stands in worse case of woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59651</guid></item></channel></rss>