<?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 leaders strive to turn their followers into children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47596]]></link><description><![CDATA[All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4001]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the medicine worse than the malady. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the medicine worse than the malady.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have faith in the boys. The man upstairs blessed us. The boys have talent and it shows. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have faith in the boys. The man upstairs blessed us. The boys have talent and it shows. They are awesome players and good athletes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25496]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets a notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance round his book-shelves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21363]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9503]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And heaven had wanted one immortal song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57214]]></link><description><![CDATA[And heaven had wanted one immortal song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever yet became great by imitation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20578]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever yet became great by imitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49034]]></link><description><![CDATA[A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the things we tend to worry about we have no control over, so why worry about them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the things we tend to worry about we have no control over, so why worry about them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8528]]></link><description><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, an image of God, and the ordinate and faithful appreciation of that thing a clue, which, truly followed, will lead back to Him. Holding [the Way of Rejection], we see that every created thing, the highest devotion to moral duty, the purest conjugal love, the saint and the seraph, is no more than an image; that every one of them, followed for its own sake and isolated from its source, becomes an idol whose service is damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best bred have the best portion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49799]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best bred have the best portion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless he knew you wouldn't believe the truth even if he told it to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless he knew you wouldn't believe the truth even if he told it to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say not always what you know, but always know what you say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66905]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't get it right, just get it written ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't get it right, just get it written]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet be sad, good brothers, For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.  Sorrow so royally in you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet be sad, good brothers, For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.  Sorrow so royally in you appears   That I will deeply put the fashion on    And wear it in my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   If our hopes, whatever we protest, really lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   If our hopes, whatever we protest, really lie in this world instead of in the eternal order, we shall find it difficult to accept the New Testament teaching of the Second Coming. In our eyes, the job is not yet done; and such an action would be, though we would not put it so, an interference. But suppose our hope rests in the purpose of God: then we safely leave the timing of the earthly experiment to Him. Meanwhile, we do what we were told to do -- to be alert and to work and pray for the spread of His Kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9857]]></link><description><![CDATA[All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60992]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrorists don't advise the passengers on board that there's a bomb on board. They just blow it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terrorists don't advise the passengers on board that there's a bomb on board. They just blow it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12317]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17280]]></link><description><![CDATA[All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half- empty. And cracked. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46430]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half- empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55489]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57834]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eyes, that displaces The neighbor diamond, and out-faces  That sun-shine by their own sweet graces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eyes, that displaces The neighbor diamond, and out-faces  That sun-shine by their own sweet graces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's more news of good economic growth and low inflation. That takes pressure off of stocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37899]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's more news of good economic growth and low inflation. That takes pressure off of stocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. [Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world. [Lat., Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We found that producers who had planted Bt corn that controls European corn borer in 2003 were significantly more likely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32138]]></link><description><![CDATA[We found that producers who had planted Bt corn that controls European corn borer in 2003 were significantly more likely to plant corn rootworm corn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year,  A handsome house to lodge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year,  A handsome house to lodge a friend,   A river at my garden's end,    A terrace walk, and half a rood     Of land, set out to plant a wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61791</guid></item></channel></rss>