<?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[...far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56895]]></link><description><![CDATA[...far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only reward of virtue is virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only reward of virtue is virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45482]]></link><description><![CDATA[The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Raven's house is built with reeds,-- Sing woe, and alas is me!  And the Raven's couch is spread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Raven's house is built with reeds,-- Sing woe, and alas is me!  And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds,   High on the hollow tree;    And the Raven himself, telling his beads     In penance for his past misdeeds,      Upon the top I see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To manipulate an image is to control a people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46555]]></link><description><![CDATA[To manipulate an image is to control a people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65836]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and ;groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness ;there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and immortality. Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man, that mocks at it, and sets it light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51500]]></link><description><![CDATA[For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man, that mocks at it, and sets it light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25224]]></link><description><![CDATA[It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For two days, George (Karl) has been constantly stressing that this is a team that we'll be playing against. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31081]]></link><description><![CDATA[For two days, George (Karl) has been constantly stressing that this is a team that we'll be playing against. We kind of wanted to make a statement that if we play you in the playoffs, this is what you're going to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14922]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things bright and beautiful, / All creatures great and small, / All things wise and wonderful,/ The Lord God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31239]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things bright and beautiful, / All creatures great and small, / All things wise and wonderful,/ The Lord God made them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60726]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60713]]></link><description><![CDATA[And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: The day of resurrection! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: The day of resurrection! Earth, tell it out abroad; The passover of gladness,  The passover of God. From death to life eternal, From this world to the sky, Our Christ hath brought us over With hymns of victory. Our hearts be pure from evil, That we may see aright The Lord in rays eternal Of resurrection light, And, list'ning to His accents, May hear, so calm and plain His own "All hail!" and, hearing, May raise the victor strain. Now let the heav'ns be joyful, Let earth her song begin, Let the round world keep triumph And all that is therein; Invisible and visible, Their notes let all things blend; For Christ the Lord has risen -- Our Joy that has no end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know we've got to create time out of no time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know we've got to create time out of no time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get your feet on the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get your feet on the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family and I sat down and discussed this. I was just spread too thin, dealing with my home and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36058]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family and I sat down and discussed this. I was just spread too thin, dealing with my home and the administrative duties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66115]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us-and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us-and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a very bad time for the arts. I think we're in a tough time in our culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a very bad time for the arts. I think we're in a tough time in our culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity the scorn even of the base. [Lat., Quicumque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity the scorn even of the base. [Lat., Quicumque amisit dignitatem pristinam  Ignavis etiam jocus est in casu gravi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65262]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the president does it, that means it is not illegal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47309]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63755]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15035]]></link><description><![CDATA[By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have people spending 55 minutes online is fascinating, because they are not doing something else. There are a fixed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41419]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have people spending 55 minutes online is fascinating, because they are not doing something else. There are a fixed number of minutes in a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5306]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   The Word of God can grow to be only a hunting-ground for texts; and we can preach, meaning intensely every word we utter, and yet in reality only lost for the moment like an actor in his part, or at least leaving it to the folk to live it out; for us, bless me, we have no time for that, but are already immersed, poor harried souls, in determining what we shall preach on next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prior to Marilyn Monroe, a star's life was hidden from the public. But now, instead of a glossy ideal, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prior to Marilyn Monroe, a star's life was hidden from the public. But now, instead of a glossy ideal, we see celebrity's ugly messes, including their drug and alcohol abuse, which, for many who admire these people, translates into a very dangerous message.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62485]]></link><description><![CDATA[At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis better to suffer wrong than do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62441]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5597]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dick Cheney blows birds outof the sky for pleasurebut he drops bombs onIraqi childrenfor power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dick Cheney blows birds outof the sky for pleasurebut he drops bombs onIraqi childrenfor power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's quite a remarkable accomplishment considering that fuel price increases are estimated to cost the company an additional $170 million, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42716]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's quite a remarkable accomplishment considering that fuel price increases are estimated to cost the company an additional $170 million, or $0.20 a share, in 2005,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39267]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one of the main reasons I came back, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38772]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one of the main reasons I came back,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57694]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vegans need nopricegouging animal abusing PfizerVegans want no domesticbattering accident causingBudweiser*Vegans need no servicesfrom corrupt Impermanente Kaiser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vegans need nopricegouging animal abusing PfizerVegans want no domesticbattering accident causingBudweiser*Vegans need no servicesfrom corrupt Impermanente Kaiser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no-one dreams of questioning. And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt. It is a curious fact that historians have often been much readier to trust the New Testament than have many theologians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49961]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58678</guid></item></channel></rss>