<?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[All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27294]]></link><description><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4451]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the Slavs will turn us from our aim of protecting and extending German influence all the world over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27097]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876  It is not for nothing that the central rite of Christ's religion is not a fast but a feast, as if to say that the one indispensable requirement for obtaining a portion in Him is an appetite, some hunger -- is to be without what we must have and He can give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For her, the lilies hang their heads and die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25089]]></link><description><![CDATA[For her, the lilies hang their heads and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This means that five days a week, we are sending our school children into environments where there is an abundance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30852]]></link><description><![CDATA[This means that five days a week, we are sending our school children into environments where there is an abundance of high-calorie, low-nutritional-quality, inexpensive food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guidelines simply aren't enough to keep us safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guidelines simply aren't enough to keep us safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21013]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum,  Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no speed limits on the road to excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25117]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17646]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59181]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clashes and vitriol only make it worse. I think what we must learn to do is to read the imagery. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clashes and vitriol only make it worse. I think what we must learn to do is to read the imagery. We need to analyze and understand the subtext.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26840]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36802]]></link><description><![CDATA[What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24214]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had the team to win it. I think we have it again this year. We just need to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had the team to win it. I think we have it again this year. We just need to be confident. I think we've gone into those games too timid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trick is to stop thinking it as 'your' money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27984]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trick is to stop thinking it as 'your' money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes someone has to hurt you deep enough to make you realize how better your life is without them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes someone has to hurt you deep enough to make you realize how better your life is without them in it...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a mediocre person is always at his best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a mediocre person is always at his best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It did a great deal of good, physically and mentally for me. I felt fresh out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It did a great deal of good, physically and mentally for me. I felt fresh out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been the first real test since FEMA (U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency ) was put under Homeland Security ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41513]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been the first real test since FEMA (U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency ) was put under Homeland Security and obviously it didn't work and I think they will want to reexamine how they respond to disasters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,  The ploughman homeward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,  The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,   And leaves the world to darkness and to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issues that are important to voters (in Illinois) are Democratic issues. If the Republicans want to win back the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issues that are important to voters (in Illinois) are Democratic issues. If the Republicans want to win back the Governor's Mansion, they really have to put up a Jim Edgar-type candidate, a moderate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day before school, I would bang away on Czerny, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart-and throw in a little Jerry Lee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day before school, I would bang away on Czerny, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart-and throw in a little Jerry Lee Lewis when I thought no one was around to correct me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No good man ever became suddenly rich. [Lat., Repente dives nemo factus est bonus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61430]]></link><description><![CDATA[No good man ever became suddenly rich. [Lat., Repente dives nemo factus est bonus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22275]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such crimes has superstition caused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such crimes has superstition caused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God -- ah, then things must be critical indeed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two monologues do not make a dialogue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two monologues do not make a dialogue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66239]]></link><description><![CDATA[I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree  Of Prohibition, root ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16635]]></link><description><![CDATA[So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree  Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest, Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,  And tremble to be happy with the rest." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59456]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest, Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,  And tremble to be happy with the rest."   And I make answer: "I am satisfied;    I dare not ask; I know not what is best;     God hath already said what shall betide."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of optimism. We proceeded to live these propositions, though we would not have stated them as blandly as I set them forth here:   Man is inherently good.  Individual man can carve out his own salvation with the help of education and society through progressively better government.  Reality and values worth searching for lie in the material world that science is steadily teaching us to analyze, catalogue, and measure. While we do not deny the existence of inner values, we relegate them to second place.  The purpose of life is happiness, [which] we define in terms of enjoyable activity, friends, and the accumulation of material objects.  The pain and evil of life -- such as ignorance, poverty, selfishness, hatred, greed, lust for power -- are caused by factors in the external world; therefore, the cure lies in the reforming of human institutions and the bettering of environmental conditions.  As science and technology remove poverty and lift from us the burden of physical existence, we shall automatically become finer persons, seeing for ourselves the value of living the Golden Rule.  In time, the rest of the world will appreciate the demonstration that the American way of life is best. They will then seek for themselves the good life of freedom and prosperity. This will be the greatest impetus toward an end of global conflict.  The way to get along with people is to beware of religious dictums and dogma. The ideal is to be a nice person and to live by the Creed of Tolerance. Thus we offend few people. We live and let live. This is the American Way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52848</guid></item></channel></rss>