<?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[Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55982]]></link><description><![CDATA[What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55845]]></link><description><![CDATA[And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls,  Who, never looking forward, are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls,  Who, never looking forward, are indeed   Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age    Are petrified forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Irresponsible spending is the scandal of Christian America, in the face ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Irresponsible spending is the scandal of Christian America, in the face of the world's need. The American standard of living has risen to unprecedented heights, although a large portion of the world exists on a sub-human level. Philanthropy, as we practice it, is not enough --- although the word philanthropy actually means brotherhood. Our stewardship of God's goods requires that we administer in God's name -- that is, with full awareness that the world is His and that His love is directed toward us no more fully than toward every man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concept behind the bill is something that everyone agrees on . I think we just disagree on how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concept behind the bill is something that everyone agrees on . I think we just disagree on how to get there. It's going to take a lot of discussion and education on both sides to get this done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree is known by his fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree is known by his fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Corpse or a Ghost-- . . . I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57395]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Corpse or a Ghost-- . . . I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64296]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise;  Or should to-morrow chance to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise;  Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight   With her enlivening and unlook'd for light,    How grateful will appear her dawning rays!     As favours unexpected doubly please.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The industry is working on tags as small as the dot of on the letter 'i', or tags can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The industry is working on tags as small as the dot of on the letter 'i', or tags can be woven into fabric, in effect hiding them from the consumer. The best way to protect the consumer is to clearly label products that have the tags and let people decide whether or not they want to buy them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the faces of men and women I see God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17725]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the faces of men and women I see God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What loss feels he that wots not what he loses? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48679]]></link><description><![CDATA[What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17103]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Return of the Bunny Suicides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Return of the Bunny Suicides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing good demand for the euro. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30650]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing good demand for the euro.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, thereare still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, thereare still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17618]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting -- you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24898]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting -- you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First weigh the considerations, then take the risks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54293]]></link><description><![CDATA[First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very, very worried because if the province or the [federal government] or even if the municipality could give them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33913]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very, very worried because if the province or the [federal government] or even if the municipality could give them a tax cut then what's fair for one is fair for all. They'd want it here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I found out they were moving the game, I told my AD to call the FHSAA and tell them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33966]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I found out they were moving the game, I told my AD to call the FHSAA and tell them don't move it, don't change the game because of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two heads are better than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two heads are better than one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He called me a bigot two times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38124]]></link><description><![CDATA[He called me a bigot two times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44988]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred other people sharing your lunacy with you does not make you any saner. Doomed, eh?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that pure thinking will do more to educate a man than any other activity he can engage in. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that pure thinking will do more to educate a man than any other activity he can engage in. To afford sympathetic entertainment to abstract ideas, to let one idea beget another, and that another, till the mind teems with them; to compare one idea with others, to weigh, to consider, evaluate, approve, respect, correct, refine; to join thought with thought like an architect till a whole edifice has been created within the mind; to travel back in imagination to the beginning of the creation and then to leap swiftly forward to the end of time; to bound upward through illimitable space and downward into the nucleus of an atom; and all this without so much as moving from our chair or opening the eyes--this is to soar above all the lower creation and come near to the angels of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my finest moment, when all of my fantastic dreams have come true...I will be utterly and completely alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59064]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my finest moment, when all of my fantastic dreams have come true...I will be utterly and completely alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13522]]></link><description><![CDATA[With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life. Barbara Hoberman Levine, Your Body Believes Every Word You Say Learning to love and accept ourselves is basic to human education. So is learning to language emotion in a positive way. Ultimately when we learn to truly love and accept ourselves, we'll be able to live well and love each other and every thing we encounter. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to change a mind-set, because there has been a lack of success with men's basketball. One of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36067]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to change a mind-set, because there has been a lack of success with men's basketball. One of the biggest things when I came in was to look at it from top to bottom. We're trying to put a new eye on things. ... A lot of people in the department have been here for a long time, 10 or 12 or 15 years. Hopefully I can bring some insight from (XU's) program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man should be religious, not superstitious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48982]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should be religious, not superstitious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63355]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63355</guid></item></channel></rss>