<?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[You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17614]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18118]]></link><description><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10822]]></link><description><![CDATA["What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2238]]></link><description><![CDATA[To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dust of some is Irish earth, Among their own they rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dust of some is Irish earth, Among their own they rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46950]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44169]]></link><description><![CDATA[People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I started anywhere else but Vancouver I would not be here tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I started anywhere else but Vancouver I would not be here tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our hearts go out to the families of those little girls. It's a terrible, terrible tragedy. Whether you know the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our hearts go out to the families of those little girls. It's a terrible, terrible tragedy. Whether you know the family or not, it affects the whole community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike,  Meaning to make such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike,  Meaning to make such music as shall save.   Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth,    My strength is waned now that my need is most;     Would that I had such help as man must have,      For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43994]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[University Police Officer Mark Allen said it was a typical football weekend.] It doesn't appear there were any serious injuries, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41740]]></link><description><![CDATA[[University Police Officer Mark Allen said it was a typical football weekend.] It doesn't appear there were any serious injuries, ... Everything went smoothly for a Penn State football weekend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow;  "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow;  "I hear the first young hard-bell ring,   'Tis time for me to go!    Northward o'er the icy rocks,     Northward o'er the sea,      My daughter comes with sunny locks:       This land's too warm for me!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9106]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on authenticity:   A mere form of religion does upon some accounts bring a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on authenticity:   A mere form of religion does upon some accounts bring a man under a heavier sentence than if he were openly profane and irreligious. He that makes a show of religion flatters God, but all the while he acts and designs against him; whereas the profane man deals plainly, and tho' he be a monstrous and unnatural rebel, yet he is a fair and open enemy. And the kisses of a false friend are more hateful than the wounds of an open enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is everything. What you think you become. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is everything. What you think you become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9844]]></link><description><![CDATA[In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/358]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the days that's in the week, I dearly love but one day,  And that's the day that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the days that's in the week, I dearly love but one day,  And that's the day that comes betwixt   A Saturday and Monday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most mimes are annoying. It's sort of like the Macarena on a smaller scale. A large number of people looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most mimes are annoying. It's sort of like the Macarena on a smaller scale. A large number of people looking silly doing the same things over and over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is grist that comes to the mill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50966]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is grist that comes to the mill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real death of America will come when everyone is alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you - Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like no-one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11017]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you - Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like no-one is watching, screw like it's being filmed, and drink like a true Irishman]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Adam said, This is the bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26545]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Adam said, This is the bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43917]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66507]]></link><description><![CDATA[High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by such encounters that wits come to know each other. [Ger., Les beaux esprits lernen einander durch dergleichen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61822]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by such encounters that wits come to know each other. [Ger., Les beaux esprits lernen einander durch dergleichen recontre erkennen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is consistent with the psyche of Maine. We all feel so overwhelmed by these government entities and in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41993]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is consistent with the psyche of Maine. We all feel so overwhelmed by these government entities and in the process we?re so awful small. This gives us a chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would even go out on a limb and say Minister Farrakhan has been cured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would even go out on a limb and say Minister Farrakhan has been cured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52523]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish all I admire, out of sympathy with the author, I should be a ruined man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[USC and Oklahoma are ranked in the topÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â two becauseÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â they haveÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â not taken essentially one-third of the season off, as Auburn has, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37657]]></link><description><![CDATA[USC and Oklahoma are ranked in the topÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â two becauseÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â they haveÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â not taken essentially one-third of the season off, as Auburn has, ... The Tigers have played I-AA Citadel, Louisiana-Monroe, Kentucky and Mississippi State. Between them, Oklahoma and USC have played onlyÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â three teams as bad as these.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11449]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by,  And that has made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by,  And that has made all the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59616</guid></item></channel></rss>