<?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[Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, "Joy is not in things, it is in us.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our pitchers just need to pitch and let the other team hit the ball, and more than likely we'll get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our pitchers just need to pitch and let the other team hit the ball, and more than likely we'll get them out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nuance with the U.S. team in qualifying is always, 'How do we blend our domestic- and foreign-based players? Now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nuance with the U.S. team in qualifying is always, 'How do we blend our domestic- and foreign-based players? Now it's more complicated because we probably have more players abroad than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never fail who die In a great cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58130]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never fail who die In a great cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government must speak for you, and the nation, which are the same. That is the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government must speak for you, and the nation, which are the same. That is the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some remedies worse than the disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53782]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some remedies worse than the disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14512]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of JusticeA swallow, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of JusticeA swallow, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds. A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings. The Swallow, finding her nest empty, lamented greatly and exclaimed: Woe to me a stranger! that in this place where all others' rights are protected, I alone should suffer wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be more specific. ...This year the show will lose $16 million for The WB, and that's with a license ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be more specific. ...This year the show will lose $16 million for The WB, and that's with a license fee reduction from last year. At least to us, that's a big number.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14601]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa aestimat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12270]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes your heart beat, ... We love to blow the walls out ... Of all the guys who started ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29293]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes your heart beat, ... We love to blow the walls out ... Of all the guys who started out at Sun, we are one of the few rock 'n' roll groups left. We're survivors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only things they did were headers and throw-ins. But they were good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only things they did were headers and throw-ins. But they were good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant;  Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14831]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant;  Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm   To bring us good or to work with harm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The modesty's a candle to thy merit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The modesty's a candle to thy merit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we'll do anything differently. We'll try to put a lot of pressure on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we'll do anything differently. We'll try to put a lot of pressure on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   The purpose of religion -- at any rate, the Christian religion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   The purpose of religion -- at any rate, the Christian religion -- is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62108]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From small beginnings come great things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3942]]></link><description><![CDATA[From small beginnings come great things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The comforters head never akes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The comforters head never akes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an incurable disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an incurable disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our greatest hungers were to be granted as easily as our bodily needs, we certainly would never be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29449]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our greatest hungers were to be granted as easily as our bodily needs, we certainly would never be able to achieve the noble feelings of friendship and love.Patience will make the banquet of life ever so much more resplendent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66714]]></link><description><![CDATA[While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that we may derive instruction from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also, because the thought which should be trained on big things is cluttered up with the burdensome detail of little things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue talkes at the heads cost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue talkes at the heads cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worst appear  The better reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50648]]></link><description><![CDATA[All was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worst appear  The better reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25695]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26537]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space  Start it at home, and hunt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25123]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space  Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark,   To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cheerful heart is good medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18936]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cheerful heart is good medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A host in himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19870]]></link><description><![CDATA[A host in himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I am that way going to temptation, Where prayers cross. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58907]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I am that way going to temptation, Where prayers cross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64661]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60912]]></link><description><![CDATA[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man and wife   Coupled together for the sake of strife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beginning is the most important part of the work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beginning is the most important part of the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51379]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28497]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people walk into a modern home, they don't ask about a library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35893]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people walk into a modern home, they don't ask about a library.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11540]]></link><description><![CDATA[False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64243</guid></item></channel></rss>