<?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[Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terror of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terror of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21242]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13849]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour,  And the moon rose over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27452]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour,  And the moon rose over the city,   Behind the dark church tower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses..wait.. ! I am receiving a correction !My wife was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27251]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses..wait.. ! I am receiving a correction !My wife was the VERY LAST woman to join the Jewish Women'sCaucus boycott of Moses!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;  Whom neither hopes deceive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;  Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment,   But lives at peace, within himself content;    In thought, or act, accountable to none     But to himself, and to the gods alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to sit down with this guy and ask him why he did it. It might have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35578]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to sit down with this guy and ask him why he did it. It might have to do with him being a veterinarian and not a physician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let the University get in the way of your education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let the University get in the way of your education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16162]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise. -Nancy Thayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14790]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise. -Nancy Thayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13968]]></link><description><![CDATA[In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19256]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing I can't stand is discomfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Thief and His MotherA boy stole a lesson-book from one of his schoolfellows and took it home to his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Thief and His MotherA boy stole a lesson-book from one of his schoolfellows and took it home to his Mother. She not only abstained from beating him, but encouraged him. He next time stole a cloak and brought it to her, and she again commended him. The Youth, advanced to adulthood, proceeded to steal things of still greater value. At last he was caught in the very act, and having his hands bound behind him, was led away to the place of public execution. His Mother followed in the crowd and violently beat her breast in sorrow, whereupon the young man said, I wish to say something to my Mother in her ear. She came close to him, and he quickly seized her ear with his teeth and bit it off. The Mother upbraided him as an unnatural child, whereon he replied, Ah! if you had beaten me when I first stole and brought to you that lesson-book, I should not have come to this, nor have been thus led to a disgraceful death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31487]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29995]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a kid sailing Optimists down in Cornwall and there was a British America's Cup challenge that was training in Falmouth,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55091]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49277]]></link><description><![CDATA[God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49277</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[When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11077]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we not all members of the same Body and partakers of the same Spirit and heirs of the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are we not all members of the same Body and partakers of the same Spirit and heirs of the same blessed hope of eternal life? ... Why do we not, as becomes brethren, dwell together in unity, but are so apt to quarrel and break out into heats, to crumble into sects and parties, to divide and separate from one another upon every trifling occasion? Give me leave... in the name of our dear Lord ... to recommend to you this new commandment of his, that ye love one another. Which is almost a new commandment still, and hardly the worse for wearing, so seldom is it put on, and so little hath it been practiced among Christians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54072]]></link><description><![CDATA[When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd ever just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55505]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47248]]></link><description><![CDATA[A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching and learning go hand and hand and to achieve student learning I believe that it is essential to engage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching and learning go hand and hand and to achieve student learning I believe that it is essential to engage the students. To achieve this, I make use of video, computer animations, PowerPoint and any other multimedia tool I can find. If you engage the class, active learning will follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24611]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  Every single time a sacrament is celebrated, God takes action, there and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7689]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  Every single time a sacrament is celebrated, God takes action, there and then -- does something, not on Calvary, but in that church. And what He does is to come to each soul partaking in the Sacrament and to assure it that He stands to the best and biggest of His promises and to the fullness of His grace in Christ... de-universalizes the Scriptures and individualizes them, makes them a personal promise, couched no longer in general terms but offered to very you and very me, as individually as if they covered no other but referred to you and me alone. We may be cold and dead and unresponsive. None the less, something happens in the Sacrament. For God stands to His side of the Covenant, whether we stand to ours or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64491]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9640]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15900]]></link><description><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; And four times he who gets his fist in fust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; And four times he who gets his fist in fust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62896</guid></item></channel></rss>