<?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[Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. -Sir William Haley.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote,  Still, still pursues, where'er I be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59203]]></link><description><![CDATA[What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote,  Still, still pursues, where'er I be,   The blight of life--the demon Thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Security Council has taken up urgent human rights and political problems in more than 20 countries this year. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Security Council has taken up urgent human rights and political problems in more than 20 countries this year. If China moves to block this effort they should explain to Aung San Suu Kyi and average Burmese people why their concerns are less important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as reasonable to suppose it the desire of all Christians to arrive at Christian perfection as to suppose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7119]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as reasonable to suppose it the desire of all Christians to arrive at Christian perfection as to suppose that all sick men desire to be restored to perfect health; yet experience shows us, that nothing wants more to be pressed, repeated, and forced upon our minds, than the plainest rules of Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England! -King Henry V. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55969]]></link><description><![CDATA[An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England! -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 8.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of kidnapping has been the main reason for learning deficiencies, especially among children whose parents are government employees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of kidnapping has been the main reason for learning deficiencies, especially among children whose parents are government employees or high-ranking professionals like doctors and teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2811]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American Baseball Coaches Association started All-American honors in that year. That was also the first year of the College ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American Baseball Coaches Association started All-American honors in that year. That was also the first year of the College World Series.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62547]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jamie started the idea when she was in high school. She seemed to befriend the exchange students. She had an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jamie started the idea when she was in high school. She seemed to befriend the exchange students. She had an Easter egg coloring and an egg hunt. It was so much fun to see the teenagers having such a good time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't see a lot of shots, but he played neat and tidy and was strong in the third period. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32795]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't see a lot of shots, but he played neat and tidy and was strong in the third period.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54797]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11199]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our mothers' bodies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17369]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63041]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine  Than my heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27422]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine  Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There must be more to life than having everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26502]]></link><description><![CDATA[There must be more to life than having everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3584]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people don't even expect us to score on these teams, ... We score twice, that might break their momentum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people don't even expect us to score on these teams, ... We score twice, that might break their momentum and make them ask, 'How are they doing this to us?' Whether it's one point or it's 30 points, I'm going to be upset because a loss is a loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23342]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pleased at the improvement we've made. I am pleased at our direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pleased at the improvement we've made. I am pleased at our direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 My God, how endless is Thy love! Thy gifts are every evening new, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 My God, how endless is Thy love! Thy gifts are every evening new, And morning mercies from above Gently distill like early dew. Thou spread'st the curtains of the night, Great guardian of my sleeping hours; Thy sov'reign word restores the light, And quickens all my drowsy powers. I yield my powers to Thy command, To Thee I consecrate my days; Perpetual blessings from Thine hand Demand perpetual songs of praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end, everything is a gag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20059]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end, everything is a gag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66011]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14651]]></link><description><![CDATA[To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14422]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21041]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love prefers twilight to daylight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love prefers twilight to daylight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49339]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Christianity is pre-eminently the religion of the heart. It does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Christianity is pre-eminently the religion of the heart. It does not always ask words, but it always wants work. The motives and not the means are the things on which it passes judgment. And the man who shows by his life that he is not ashamed of the Gospel will assuredly one day find that the Gospel is not ashamed of him. There is much more which might be said, but I refrain. Ere I close, you will let me add my emphasis to the fact that it is in our life and conduct that we must show our devotion to Christ. The silent Gospel reaches further than the grandest rhetoric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to hold a man is in your arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to hold a man is in your arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1618</guid></item></channel></rss>