<?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[We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away….]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64755]]></link><description><![CDATA[With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who praises everybody, praises nobody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48025]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who praises everybody, praises nobody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inifinite is in the finite of every instant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inifinite is in the finite of every instant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise.  The work she plyed, but, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise.  The work she plyed, but, studious of delay,   Each following night reversed the toils of day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62755]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,  And spades, the emblems of untimely graves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5237]]></link><description><![CDATA[With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,  And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had solid, broad-based and, in many businesses, accelerating revenue growth, with revenue in businesses other than home mortgage up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had solid, broad-based and, in many businesses, accelerating revenue growth, with revenue in businesses other than home mortgage up a combined 17 per cent from a year ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55566]]></link><description><![CDATA[You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66276]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. •Vice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. •Vice President Dan Quayle    Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. •Ambrose Bierce    You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself -- a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman, a righteous or unrighteous man, ... when in the fullness of tasks, questions, success or ill-hap, experiences and perplexities, a man throws himself into the arms of God... then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells  That the wind sways above a ruined shrine.  Vainer his voice in whom no longer dwells  Hunger that craves immortal Bread and Wine. Light songs we breathe, that perish with our breath,  Out of our lips that have not kissed the rod.  They shall not live who have not tasted death.  They only sing who are struck dumb by God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43695]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizend of the world: ask not what American will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived. [Lat., Populus vult decipi; decipiatur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived. [Lat., Populus vult decipi; decipiatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as muchas you can. GIVE as much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21307]]></link><description><![CDATA[EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as muchas you can. GIVE as much as you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52666]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statistician, psychologist, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. the psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2085]]></link><description><![CDATA[To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16873]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that blushes is not quite a brute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that blushes is not quite a brute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48168]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was an awful rainbow once in heaven; We know her woof, her texture; she is given  In the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was an awful rainbow once in heaven; We know her woof, her texture; she is given  In the dull catalogue of common things.   Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57285]]></link><description><![CDATA[A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roads are just a suggestion, like pants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roads are just a suggestion, like pants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23702]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had turnovers on five of six possessions against Old Mill. We've had trouble getting over that loss and we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32742]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had turnovers on five of six possessions against Old Mill. We've had trouble getting over that loss and we're trying to re-establish ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition. -A Midsummer Night's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55526]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if there be an hereafter, And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'd  And suffer'd to speak out, tells every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58236]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if there be an hereafter, And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'd  And suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,   Then must it be an awful thing to die;    More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The severity has been high in some cases, and we need to take some action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40425]]></link><description><![CDATA[The severity has been high in some cases, and we need to take some action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bit that one eates, no friend makes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49805]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bit that one eates, no friend makes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10879]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21718]]></link><description><![CDATA[There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was our extra scorer a lot. She's just really competitive. She was our outside threat. And we won a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39758]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was our extra scorer a lot. She's just really competitive. She was our outside threat. And we won a couple of games with her shooting free throws down the stretch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main reason is to demonstrate to students the importance and seriousness of the test. We hope by applying it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main reason is to demonstrate to students the importance and seriousness of the test. We hope by applying it to graduation (that) students see that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man, To yield possession to my holy prayers,  And to thy state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man, To yield possession to my holy prayers,  And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight.   I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is uncharted water here; this is the first time the turnpike commission has done this. I don't even know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38053]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is uncharted water here; this is the first time the turnpike commission has done this. I don't even know if it would be feasible for the bonding company to take over (Smith & Johnson). There may not be any employee infrastructure to use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to send you by fax a list of ingredients. And I want you to come up with recipes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to send you by fax a list of ingredients. And I want you to come up with recipes for lovers that (are) easy. Because if you're going to spend the day cooking, you won't have any energy left for love-making.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36758</guid></item></channel></rss>