<?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[Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can replace a unique person like Peter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28679]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can replace a unique person like Peter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoe'er thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoe'er thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality, with all its difficulties, opportunities, and implications. The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AethiopThe purchaser of a black servant was persuaded that the color of his skin arose from dirt contracted through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The AethiopThe purchaser of a black servant was persuaded that the color of his skin arose from dirt contracted through the neglect of his former masters. On bringing him home he resorted to every means of cleaning, and subjected the man to incessant scrubbings. The servant caught a severe cold, but he never changed his color or complexion. What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had neither seen it nor knew anything about the notices, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38771]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had neither seen it nor knew anything about the notices,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62469]]></link><description><![CDATA[I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They simply don't want a recession. It's an insurance policy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37051]]></link><description><![CDATA[They simply don't want a recession. It's an insurance policy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really don't want to get into the wood business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33959]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really don't want to get into the wood business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24312]]></link><description><![CDATA[No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble theirfood, and tyrannize their teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble theirfood, and tyrannize their teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never said this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28844]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never said this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955   Read whatever chapter of Scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it -- yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Youth Volunteer Corps has helped us for about five years and we really depend on them to tackle big, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Youth Volunteer Corps has helped us for about five years and we really depend on them to tackle big, physical projects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were computer programmer, I do black box and white box testing before the applications launched ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30136]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were computer programmer, I do black box and white box testing before the applications launched]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat., Nimirum insanus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21016]]></link><description><![CDATA[He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat., Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod  Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay in, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay in, the more wrinkled you get. -Robbert Oustin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is actually patronized by the social order as a means of stabilizing and perpetuating the existing system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53680]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is actually patronized by the social order as a means of stabilizing and perpetuating the existing system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52774]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58172]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32591]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our trading multiple has come up but it's still below the average of our peers and is particularly low on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our trading multiple has come up but it's still below the average of our peers and is particularly low on a forward basis. We are slowly building confidence - one quarter at a time - and we think it is eventually going to be noticed by the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59556]]></link><description><![CDATA[That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29844]]></link><description><![CDATA[All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15662]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66710]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27171]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But everyone is responsible for protecting children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39425]]></link><description><![CDATA[But everyone is responsible for protecting children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a kind of men so loose of soul, That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51454]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a kind of men so loose of soul, That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. [Lat., Quam angusta innocentia est, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20960]]></link><description><![CDATA[What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. [Lat., Quam angusta innocentia est, ad legem bonum esse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An educated people can be easily governed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65085]]></link><description><![CDATA[An educated people can be easily governed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25695]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who heeds not experience, trust him not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who heeds not experience, trust him not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's putting the ball over the plate, hitting his spots and trusting the defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31325]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's putting the ball over the plate, hitting his spots and trusting the defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14110]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It started out incredible. We were unbelievable. We were moving really well and everything was good. We were expected to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It started out incredible. We were unbelievable. We were moving really well and everything was good. We were expected to fall apart a little here and there, but we stuck to our game plan and (we're) just going to continue to work with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57007</guid></item></channel></rss>