<?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[The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54209]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrorists don't advise the passengers on board that there's a bomb on board. They just blow it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terrorists don't advise the passengers on board that there's a bomb on board. They just blow it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison eith this order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek joy in what you give not in what you get ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek joy in what you give not in what you get]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old Man and DeathAn old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old Man and DeathAn old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots to the city for sale one day, became very wearied with his long journey. He sat down by the wayside, and throwing down his load, besought Death to come. Death immediately appeared in answer to his summons and asked for what reason he had called him. The Old Man hurriedly replied, That, lifting up the load, you may place it again upon my shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People weren't notified soon enough then they were given the impression it affected them when it didn'tÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it was sheer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38779]]></link><description><![CDATA[People weren't notified soon enough then they were given the impression it affected them when it didn'tÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it was sheer carelessness and incompetence on the part of the city. Unfortunately, these things are becoming more common since amalgamation. The problem is it's all controlled from a central location and they (city staff) don't the areas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. [Lat., Suave mari ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42809]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. [Lat., Suave mari magno, turbantibus aequora ventis  E terra magnum alterius spectare laborum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20122]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51473]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62681]]></link><description><![CDATA[...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45578]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it,  And what the word did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12634]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it,  And what the word did make it,   That I believe and take it.   - Elizabeth I,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62865]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The line of red are lines of blood, nobly and unselfishly shed by men who loved the liberty of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The line of red are lines of blood, nobly and unselfishly shed by men who loved the liberty of their fellowmen more than they loved their fellowmen more than they lover their own lives and fortunes. God forbid that we would have to use the blood of America to freshen the color of the flag. But if it should ever be necessary, that flag will be colored once more, and in being colored will be glorified and purified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think her overwhelming legacy is one of having made the office of Governor General visible and engaged in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38458]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think her overwhelming legacy is one of having made the office of Governor General visible and engaged in a way that it certainly hadn't been in at least a generation, if not more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21357]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a good strategy to take aim at this generation. They've finished raising children and they've paid off their mortgages, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a good strategy to take aim at this generation. They've finished raising children and they've paid off their mortgages, so all that cash is sitting in their pockets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your scene precariously subsists too long, On French translation and Italian song.  Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your scene precariously subsists too long, On French translation and Italian song.  Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the stage;   Be justly warm'd with your own native rage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to bounce back. This game does not end our season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to bounce back. This game does not end our season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25910]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will for the deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will for the deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28681]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45425]]></link><description><![CDATA[The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13459]]></link><description><![CDATA[In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12643]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas;  Whose flag has braved a thousand years,   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas;  Whose flag has braved a thousand years,   The battle and the breeze!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were a great rebounding team last year so teams are really making it a point to attack the boards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35772]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were a great rebounding team last year so teams are really making it a point to attack the boards on us, ... As guards, we're going to have to do a better job of boxing our man out and then getting back there and helping out. That's how we can get out running and get into our offense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me  Weary and old with service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51362]]></link><description><![CDATA[My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me  Weary and old with service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48820]]></link><description><![CDATA[So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American public education is a remarkable enterprise; it succeeds best where it fails. Imagine an industry that consistently fails to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56990]]></link><description><![CDATA[American public education is a remarkable enterprise; it succeeds best where it fails. Imagine an industry that consistently fails to do what it sets out to do. a factory where this year's product is invariably sleazier than last year's but, nevertheless, better than next year's. Imagine a corporation whose executives are always spending vast sums of money on studies designed to discover just what it is they are supposed to do and then vaster sums for further studies on just how to do it. Imagine a plant devoted to the manufacture of factory seconds to be sold at a loss. Imagine a producer of vacuum cleaners that rarely work hiring whole platoons of engineers who will, in time, report that it is, in fact, true that the vacuum cleaners rarely really work, and who will, for a larger fee, be glad to find out why, if that's possible. If you discover some such outfit, don't invest in it. Unfortunately, we are all required to invest in public education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55400]]></link><description><![CDATA[A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5295]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the pyramids would rise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been blessed with very, very good weather and the wholesale price has gone down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been blessed with very, very good weather and the wholesale price has gone down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37942</guid></item></channel></rss>