<?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[It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15911]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire.  And burns in meadow-grass the phlox  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26624]]></link><description><![CDATA[When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire.  And burns in meadow-grass the phlox   His torch of purple fire:    . . . .     And when the punctual May arrives,      With cowslip-garland on her brow,       We know what once she gave our lives,        And cannot give us now!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I won't even begin to discuss it as a football match because it wasn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38428]]></link><description><![CDATA[I won't even begin to discuss it as a football match because it wasn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7499]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no slavery but ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47476]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no slavery but ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36412]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/89]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/89</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We felt we had been badly let down by Historic Scotland. They were concerned about catering for visitors to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33837]]></link><description><![CDATA[We felt we had been badly let down by Historic Scotland. They were concerned about catering for visitors to the castle and some health-and-safety issues, but suggestions were made to resolve these and with a bit of goodwill and better joint working it could have happened. At the time, I don't think there was a meaningful attempt to do so but we need to ensure that these concerts happen next year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Germans wit is in his fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49859]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Germans wit is in his fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not seeking 100 percent consensus -- the most important thing is that the people of Iraq accept (the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37414]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not seeking 100 percent consensus -- the most important thing is that the people of Iraq accept (the constitution) in a referendum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the boat, we are the sea, I sail in you, you sail in me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4412]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the boat, we are the sea, I sail in you, you sail in me]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cloning of a human being is intuitively and properly viewed with almost uniform horror, because replication of a human by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cloning of a human being is intuitively and properly viewed with almost uniform horror, because replication of a human by cloning would radically alter the very definition of what a human being is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main reason is to demonstrate to students the importance and seriousness of the test. We hope by applying it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main reason is to demonstrate to students the importance and seriousness of the test. We hope by applying it to graduation (that) students see that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be proved, but rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is, in fact, more important for us to know what God did to Israel and to His Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What barn-burners, ... We had two very good games, and it just boiled down to who wanted it more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29378]]></link><description><![CDATA[What barn-burners, ... We had two very good games, and it just boiled down to who wanted it more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stately and tall he moves in the hall, The chief of a thousand for grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stately and tall he moves in the hall, The chief of a thousand for grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, he has at the level of resistance that we need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41162]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, he has at the level of resistance that we need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be an orientation on Sept. 29, where there will be commitment between guides and parents. No location has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40122]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be an orientation on Sept. 29, where there will be commitment between guides and parents. No location has been designated as yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe the murderer was known to her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41368]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe the murderer was known to her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stoop, boys. This gate Instructs you how t' adore the heavens and bows you  To a morning's holy office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stoop, boys. This gate Instructs you how t' adore the heavens and bows you  To a morning's holy office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been an awesome experience, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been an awesome experience,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48610]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9860]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The] doctrine of progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6740]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The] doctrine of progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. Its core was the conviction that in thus extending the range of western liberal culture and developing its assumptions, they were in effect establishing on earth that which would grow into the kingdom of God. Some put it sharply but un-Biblically: "building the Kingdom". That whole view exists today only as debris, for it has foundered on the rocks, not so much of human sin, as of the contradictions and complexities of the very western culture which was the substance of its belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His ignorance is encyclopedic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20409]]></link><description><![CDATA[His ignorance is encyclopedic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48318]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth,  And the brook cries like a child! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth,  And the brook cries like a child!   Not a rainbow shines to cheer us;    Ah! the sun comes never near us,     And the heavens look dark and wile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She really played hard against McNary and I think we might have surprised ourselves with our performance. It was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37630]]></link><description><![CDATA[She really played hard against McNary and I think we might have surprised ourselves with our performance. It was a big game for me personally, since I went to McNary it was great to come away with a win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46505]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night’s rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11927]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night’s rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue,  Displays distinguished merit, is a noble   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue,  Displays distinguished merit, is a noble   Of Nature's own creating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44160]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins  (Not of old victors, all whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42956]]></link><description><![CDATA[How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins  (Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests   Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,    But) of find unclipt gold, where dully rests     Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,      Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--       Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." Ropo Oguntimehin Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave. -T.H. White.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13568</guid></item></channel></rss>