<?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[The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. -The Merchant of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lover of Jesus and of the truth . . . can lift himself above himself in spirit. [Lat., Amator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lover of Jesus and of the truth . . . can lift himself above himself in spirit. [Lat., Amator Jesu et veritatis . . . potest se . . . elevare supra seipsum in spiritu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4646]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13760]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery--psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52187]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery--psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue of school choice is still alive but vouchers as a means is not a choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue of school choice is still alive but vouchers as a means is not a choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults. -MAD Magazine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults. -MAD Magazine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to make things happen. Hit-and-run, steals, we wanted to put pressure on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to make things happen. Hit-and-run, steals, we wanted to put pressure on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23879]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is the shell of the soul, and dress the husk of that shell; but the husk often tells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is the shell of the soul, and dress the husk of that shell; but the husk often tells what the kernel is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe we'll make a mosaic out of the pieces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe we'll make a mosaic out of the pieces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After I graduated, I was like, OK, what do I do now? ... And nothing was as great as playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40114]]></link><description><![CDATA[After I graduated, I was like, OK, what do I do now? ... And nothing was as great as playing in a band with R.L. So I just called and said, 'What if I just moved to Kansas City?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iraq has several sects, religions and nationalities so this list is the best choice for the Iraqis who realize that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iraq has several sects, religions and nationalities so this list is the best choice for the Iraqis who realize that the voting for Iraq will achieve better security, ... The sectarianism will lead to sectarian fights, which has a beginning but no end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60063]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  There is a false self-distrust which denies the worth of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  There is a false self-distrust which denies the worth of its own talent. It is not humility -- it is petty pride, withholding its simple gifts from the hands of Christ because they are not more pretentious. There are men who would endow colleges, they say, if they were millionaires. They would help in the work of Bible study if they were as gifted as Henry Drummond. They would strive to lead their associates into the Christian life if they had the gifts of Dwight L. Moody. But they are not ready to give what they have and do what they can and be as it has pleased God to make them, in His service -- and that is their condemnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man, at the bottom of his heart, wants to do right. But only he can do right who knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man, at the bottom of his heart, wants to do right. But only he can do right who knows right; only he knows right who thinks right; only he thinks right who believes right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to go into history; I want to go into the Canal Zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45435]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to go into history; I want to go into the Canal Zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valencia has done an excellent job of building and guiding a very thoughtful and effective diversity and inclusion strategy at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valencia has done an excellent job of building and guiding a very thoughtful and effective diversity and inclusion strategy at our company. Her long history of service at BellSouth and in the community combined with her breadth of business knowledge makes her a tremendous asset to this Board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63277]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. [Ger., Wer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54987]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. [Ger., Wer den kleinsten Theil eines Geheimnisses hingibt, hat den andern nicht mehr in der Gewalt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-violence is the article of faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-violence is the article of faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13569]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2585]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody with me at sea but myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody with me at sea but myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21605]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,  And there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,  And there is such confusion in my powers   As, after some oration fairly spoke    By a beloved prince, there doth appear     Among the buzzing pleased multitude,      Where every something being blent together       Turns to a wild of nothing, save of joy        Expressed and not expressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a big problem. We're going to work on it. We're just not scoring, and that's something we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34399]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a big problem. We're going to work on it. We're just not scoring, and that's something we have to fix.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His eyes Were with his heart. and that was far away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48742]]></link><description><![CDATA[His eyes Were with his heart. and that was far away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy is better unborn than untaught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58745]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy is better unborn than untaught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't control what you can't measure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26646]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't control what you can't measure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many men in Court and so many strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49753]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many men in Court and so many strangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53314]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10151]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61153]]></link><description><![CDATA[If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government; who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty; who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65966]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have a young girl, the owner's daughter, doing what family wants her to do, and an immigrant trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29720]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have a young girl, the owner's daughter, doing what family wants her to do, and an immigrant trying to save up to bring the rest of his family over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things. [Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive a tout.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things. [Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive a tout.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1030]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[There is an odd grammar in that sentence, which seems wrong, but is actually precise.] Close siblings were less common, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39538]]></link><description><![CDATA[[There is an odd grammar in that sentence, which seems wrong, but is actually precise.] Close siblings were less common, ... It seemed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16130]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love it when I see old couples in love because it makes me believe that TRUE LOVE does exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65756]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love it when I see old couples in love because it makes me believe that TRUE LOVE does exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65756</guid></item></channel></rss>