<?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 philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I looked for validation from my fellow contemporaries, I instead found jealousy and envy. I did not find team spirit. This led to dissatisfaction, an unease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20334]]></link><description><![CDATA[What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Word is already that we are only sending blacks out of this state. We are make (sic) a strategic error. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Word is already that we are only sending blacks out of this state. We are make (sic) a strategic error. FEMA will not have to answer to the people, we will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew (Orr was fast). But I didn't know he was that fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40880]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew (Orr was fast). But I didn't know he was that fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving Thee, we have no need Our wandering spirits back again to lead Into Thy presence, but continued there Like angels standing on the highest stair Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang,  The apple into blossom burst,   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang,  The apple into blossom burst,   To life the grass and violets sprang.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictateevery step toward the dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21452]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictateevery step toward the dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fail your way to the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fail your way to the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never met a man I didn't like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1645]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never met a man I didn't like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought it was the most exciting thing I had ever heard in my lifetime. I was blown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought it was the most exciting thing I had ever heard in my lifetime. I was blown away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts. [Lat., Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17446]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts. [Lat., Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that's huge progress. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42523]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound;  It speaks itself, and what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound;  It speaks itself, and what it does contain,   In all things needful to be known is plain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is . . . sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18453]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is . . . sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so incredibly special. Children come to swim, bike and run and leaving feeling confident and having had a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28694]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so incredibly special. Children come to swim, bike and run and leaving feeling confident and having had a good time. They also leave knowing that people care about making the world just a little bit better and they're a part of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does seem as if she's gravitated to the more mainstream causes. These are easy, and from a political standpoint, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33043]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does seem as if she's gravitated to the more mainstream causes. These are easy, and from a political standpoint, no-brainers. While the families of people with mental illnesses are voters, many people with mental illnesses are not. That's not the same for people with cancer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was simply amazed; in my 20-plus years as a funeral home director, I have never seen workers come out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40410]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was simply amazed; in my 20-plus years as a funeral home director, I have never seen workers come out in force in a display of respect as I had here today. There were state highway department workers at every intersection on the way to the cemetery and about 40 to 50 state trucks on hand. The Illinois Department of Transportation takes care of its own. It was very impressive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50602]]></link><description><![CDATA[We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25251]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are seeing a broadening out of the market that we had not seen going from the 9,000 to 10,000 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41884]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are seeing a broadening out of the market that we had not seen going from the 9,000 to 10,000 mark. This is a much more egalitarian market and that's a healthy development. It suggests a more sustainable market over time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2288]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13795]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say that cricket has nothing to do with politics and you say that cricket has nothing to do with life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say that cricket has nothing to do with politics and you say that cricket has nothing to do with life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13169]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13908]]></link><description><![CDATA[England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gracious as sunshine, sweet as dew Shut in a lily's golden core. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gracious as sunshine, sweet as dew Shut in a lily's golden core.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, every one That listen may, unto a tale  That's merrier than the nightingale.   - Henry Wadsworth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, every one That listen may, unto a tale  That's merrier than the nightingale.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III,),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27793]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit strange victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit strange victims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want faith, I want knowledge. I do not want hope, I want truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want faith, I want knowledge. I do not want hope, I want truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.  The French ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5020]]></link><description><![CDATA[In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.  The French are with equal advantage content--   So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is greedy is always in want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18292]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is greedy is always in want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was ugly. That may be one of the worst games Danville High School has played in a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36301]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was ugly. That may be one of the worst games Danville High School has played in a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11583]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. It’s not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11583</guid></item></channel></rss>