<?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[No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48706]]></link><description><![CDATA[No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels good to blame someone else, especially if they are smaller than you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13664]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels good to blame someone else, especially if they are smaller than you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evaluation and judgment are responses to what exists, sorting the things that pass before us into categories of good, bad, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evaluation and judgment are responses to what exists, sorting the things that pass before us into categories of good, bad, and indifferent. But a rational life, the life of a valuer, does not consist essentially in reaction. It consists in action. Man does not find his values, like the other animals; he creates them. The primary focus of a valuer is not to take the world as it comes and pass judgment. His primary focus is to identify what might and ought to exist, to uncover potentialities that he can exploit, to find ways of reshaping the world in the image of his values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always keep a song in your heart - it's like karaoke for the voices in your head ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always keep a song in your heart - it's like karaoke for the voices in your head]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Continuing a series on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Continuing a series on the church:  The apostle asked the converts of Apollos one question: "Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" and got a plain answer. His modern successors are more inclined to ask either "Did you believe exactly what we teach?" or "Were the hands that were laid on you our hands?", and -- if the answer is satisfactory -- to assure the converts that they have received the Holy Spirit even if they don't know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad part is, there will be no problem selling out those $1,000 parties. Playboy will be in the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad part is, there will be no problem selling out those $1,000 parties. Playboy will be in the same venue at $2,000 a pop, and people will spend all kinds of money. But we struggle because we don't have Playboy bunnies. We in the nonprofits are doing everything but selling ourselves at auction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Larry Adams, 33, has been confined to a room in University Medical Center since April, when he received an artificial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40395]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Larry Adams, 33, has been confined to a room in University Medical Center since April, when he received an artificial heart. The heart is connected to a 350-pound machine, which is about the size of a dishwasher, and six feet of hose hooks the machine to pumps in Adams' chest.] I've just got to sit and wait, ... Everywhere I go, engineers have to push the box around with me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet here's eglantine, Here's ivy!--take them as I used to do  Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet here's eglantine, Here's ivy!--take them as I used to do  Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine.   Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true,    And tell thy soul their roots are left in mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is drunken . . . Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill  Did with his liquor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22921]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is drunken . . . Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill  Did with his liquor slide into his veins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17836]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bill is completely ignoring the economic, political and social reality of the United States. Immigrants have been and will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bill is completely ignoring the economic, political and social reality of the United States. Immigrants have been and will continue to be an integral part of the country's social fabric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give them each a different quote about about winning, confidence, motivation, stuff like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39443]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give them each a different quote about about winning, confidence, motivation, stuff like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/125]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck and tilt at all I meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck and tilt at all I meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came up with a pretty unique scheme that we think the tourism people were impressed with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33936]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came up with a pretty unique scheme that we think the tourism people were impressed with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed lest you stumble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed lest you stumble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22961]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a 'modem', can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest threat to freedom, as well as the most formidable enemy of it, is a supported cause against it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58969]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest threat to freedom, as well as the most formidable enemy of it, is a supported cause against it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' Remember how they taught you; how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down: The legacy stops here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1924]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45914]]></link><description><![CDATA[For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Twain said `20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark Twain said `20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off your bowline. Sail away from the safe harbor.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History will judge the invasion of Iraq one of the greatest foreign policy misadventures of all time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23034]]></link><description><![CDATA[History will judge the invasion of Iraq one of the greatest foreign policy misadventures of all time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lie is a condition of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lie is a condition of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things have changed throughout the state and a lot of farmers now have off-farm income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things have changed throughout the state and a lot of farmers now have off-farm income.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a lot of hard work and perseverance finally paying off. When I first got up here in Greeley, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31412]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a lot of hard work and perseverance finally paying off. When I first got up here in Greeley, it looked like I was going to be the first one gone and never coming back, ... But they saw something they liked and they stuck with me and gave me a bunch of opportunities to prove myself. And finally it's coming to pass that what they thought about me was right and that I can play in this league and be a player on this team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60250]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can be seen through your eyes butit is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can be seen through your eyes butit is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is something interesting to look at. We should explore this further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34349]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is something interesting to look at. We should explore this further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50372]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people like me, they tell me it is in spite of my colour. When they dislike me, they point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52924]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people like me, they tell me it is in spite of my colour. When they dislike me, they point out that it is not because of my colour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41258</guid></item></channel></rss>