<?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[For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45877]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. [Lat., Mihi enim omnis pax cum civibus bello civili utilior videbatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard  The thanks of millions yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard  The thanks of millions yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is appallingly obvious our technology has exceeded our humanity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58815]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is appallingly obvious our technology has exceeded our humanity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress. Plato -Elizabeth Montagu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23852]]></link><description><![CDATA[A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a significant increase in the number of emergent CT scans performed after the release of the NCI statement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40693]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a significant increase in the number of emergent CT scans performed after the release of the NCI statement in 2002, ... As physicians we should make judicious use of CT scans a priority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55448]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talk about the f------ mob; at least we've got principles! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36308]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talk about the f------ mob; at least we've got principles!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be human? Are we capable, if need be, of fundamental change, or do the dead hands of forgotten ancestors impel us in some direction, indiscriminately for good or ill, and beyond our control? Can we alter our character? Can we improve our societies? Can we leave our children a world better than the one that was left to us? Can we free them from the demons that torment us and haunt our civilization? In the long run, are we wise enough to know what changes to make? Can we be trusted with our own future?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynicism is the humor of hatred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynicism is the humor of hatred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46802]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16390]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11446]]></link><description><![CDATA[For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is as American as cherry pie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence is as American as cherry pie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Undeclared: The Complete Series ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Undeclared: The Complete Series]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59626]]></link><description><![CDATA[The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crash like this is a glaring reminder of how fragile our system is and how there is no back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40908]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crash like this is a glaring reminder of how fragile our system is and how there is no back up. We're at near-gridlock at every single rush hour. When we get a major incident like this, we're at a complete standstill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came out kind of slow. We kept our composure, and we stayed in the game with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41870]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came out kind of slow. We kept our composure, and we stayed in the game with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14566]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought to be persuaded that the propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60287]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought to be persuaded that the propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which heaven itself has ordained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellers there is safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/771]]></link><description><![CDATA[For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellers there is safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17628]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Man cannot make a redemptive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Man cannot make a redemptive art, but he can make an art that communicates what he experiences of redemption as a man and what he knows of it as an artist. God in his infinite wisdom may use an art work as an instrument of redemption, but what serves or can serve that purpose is beyond the knowledge of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20946]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a great victory that comes without blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a great victory that comes without blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the kids get pumped up to play against other competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the kids get pumped up to play against other competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241]]></link><description><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is folly, except grace guide it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is folly, except grace guide it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow | a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. [It., Tu proverai si come sa di sale  Lo pane altrui, e com e duro calle   Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,  Long may thy hardy sons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25953]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,  Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil   Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that environment, it's only natural to expect the switch from labor into technology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31063]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that environment, it's only natural to expect the switch from labor into technology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People cry after the unsuccessful love not because love ends,but because it still continues, even if it’s over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62858]]></link><description><![CDATA[People cry after the unsuccessful love not because love ends,but because it still continues, even if it’s over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we see them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we see them in the hand of God, Who dispenses them; when we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us; our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even a matter of consolation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes of his understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21014]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes of his understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The players and parents really rallied around him this season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The players and parents really rallied around him this season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caring is a reflex... You live, you help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caring is a reflex... You live, you help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54663</guid></item></channel></rss>