<?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[Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. -Anonymous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. -Anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/99]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/99</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With an apple I will astonish Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3335]]></link><description><![CDATA[With an apple I will astonish Paris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25861]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63682]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11486]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions,  Setting endeavor in continual motion;   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions,  Setting endeavor in continual motion;   To which is fixed as an aim or butt    Obedience; for so work the honeybees,     Creatures that by a rule in nature teach      The act of order to a peopled kingdom.       They have a king, and officers of sorts,        Where some like magistrates correct at home,         Others like merchants venture trade abroad,          Others like soldiers armed in their stings           Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,            Which pillage they with merry march bring home             To the tent-royal of their emperor,              Who, busied in his majesties, surveys               The singing masons building roofs of gold,                The civil citizens kneading up the honey,                 The poor mechanic porters crowding in                  Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,                   The sad-eyed justice with his surly hum                    Delivering o'er to executors pale                     The lazy yawning drone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a long event. This is only the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28668]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a long event. This is only the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22800]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on a scientific guiding principle that people can agree on. Securing a healthy global future requires this guiding principle to preserve freedom of spirit yet be as provable as the laws of physics. A guiding principle that addresses the meaning of life and is compelling enough to generate social cohesion and behaviors that serve the greater whole. After thirty years of investigation and research, it has become clear to me that the answer lies within the human heart. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47301]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The team played much better, ... Every team member contributed tonight. Our serving was much better, and we had good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The team played much better, ... Every team member contributed tonight. Our serving was much better, and we had good team hustle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1096]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is more eloquent than words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is more eloquent than words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27002]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High drug costs are already forcing people to cut their pills, take less and sometimes not even be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40902]]></link><description><![CDATA[High drug costs are already forcing people to cut their pills, take less and sometimes not even be able to fill their prescriptions at all. Eliminating 'wrap around' coverage is a harsh move that will deny drugs to our state's most vulnerable populations - we urge the Legislature to reject the Governor's proposal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For goodness' sake, why elevate AIDS over cancer? She shouldn't have filled out that questionnaire at all. President Bush is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31198]]></link><description><![CDATA[For goodness' sake, why elevate AIDS over cancer? She shouldn't have filled out that questionnaire at all. President Bush is asking us to have faith in things unseen. We only have that kind of faith in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel she needs opposition. She's served the city well, but I think at some point you may need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel she needs opposition. She's served the city well, but I think at some point you may need to revisit that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63431]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62471]]></link><description><![CDATA[YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMYANK.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14656]]></link><description><![CDATA["Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speake not of a dead man at the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speake not of a dead man at the table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60726]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exhibitors have really outdone themselves this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exhibitors have really outdone themselves this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the police, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39051]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the police, they passed it on to the highway department.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2386]]></link><description><![CDATA[America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence. But we are not Romans; we do not seek an empire. We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit us to the values of democracy and the universal cause of human rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just trying to figure out how this will fit into that agreement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38195]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just trying to figure out how this will fit into that agreement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63581]]></link><description><![CDATA[As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be little liking where there is no likeness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28488]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be little liking where there is no likeness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withstand tremendous boredom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withstand tremendous boredom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We brought the lawsuit because we believe the public has a right to know about the 'no fly' list and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37151]]></link><description><![CDATA[We brought the lawsuit because we believe the public has a right to know about the 'no fly' list and other government watch lists. And we succeeded in doing so by making public hundreds of pages of documents that not only confirmed the existence of the 'no fly' list, but exposed many of the serious problems with the secret list. Only by informed public debate can we make our government accountable and our country safer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition. -A Midsummer Night's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55526]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare, ... People are telling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare, ... People are telling us they can't afford to get the care they need, because Medicare supplemental policies are too expensive, medications are too expensive, and they are having trouble with special needs if they are in HMOs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47650]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a dangerous and idle dream to think that the state can become rule by philosophers turned kings or scientists turned commissars. For if philosophers become kings or scientists commissars, they become politicians, and the powers given to the state are powers given to men who are rulers of states, men subject to all the limitations and temptations of their dangerous craft. Unless this is borne in mind, there will be a dangerous optimistic tendency to sweep aside doubts and fears as irrelevant, since, in the state that the projectors have in mind, power will be exercised by men of a wisdom and degree of moral virtue that we have not yet seen. It won't. It will be exercised by men who will be men first and rulers next and scientists and saints long after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever kind of word thou speakest, the like shalt thou bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever kind of word thou speakest, the like shalt thou bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clothes make the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clothes make the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12976</guid></item></channel></rss>