<?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 big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27662]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty has a lot to do with character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty has a lot to do with character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14285]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64296]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But over all things brooding slept The quiet sense of something lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25586]]></link><description><![CDATA[But over all things brooding slept The quiet sense of something lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20722]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pouring oil on troubled water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pouring oil on troubled water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13089]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may becom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19523]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65848]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54758]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any one of us to talk about the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[West played really well. But I think we got a little ahead of ourselves, too . . . I hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39392]]></link><description><![CDATA[West played really well. But I think we got a little ahead of ourselves, too . . . I hope it was an eye-opener.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I'll live long enough to shoot my age. I'm lucky to shoot my weight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I'll live long enough to shoot my age. I'm lucky to shoot my weight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the meantime, the data on the US economy (especially employment and industrial production) will look very weak in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40736]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the meantime, the data on the US economy (especially employment and industrial production) will look very weak in the next few months,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was 10th my first year. I finished fifth the next year and third last season, now I'm looking to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was 10th my first year. I finished fifth the next year and third last season, now I'm looking to win it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39185]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45865]]></link><description><![CDATA[And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs, And speak men what they can to him he'll answer  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51898]]></link><description><![CDATA[This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs, And speak men what they can to him he'll answer  With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,   Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape,  Or grew on vine whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape,  Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching through   Under the Andes to the Cape,    Suffered no savor of the earth to escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimum would be to have him (Hasek) in net but he's injured and we're happy the way Ray has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimum would be to have him (Hasek) in net but he's injured and we're happy the way Ray has been playing. He's going to be the guy for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is prudent to learn what to avoid from the misfortunes of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51621]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is prudent to learn what to avoid from the misfortunes of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/664]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12711]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities - that's huge progress. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42522]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities - that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54448]]></link><description><![CDATA[That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things require skill, but an appetite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49111]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things require skill, but an appetite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is,is a clue to the universe. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22115]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is,is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until youwin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21828]]></link><description><![CDATA[How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until youwin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33127]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks; Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.  The founder's you: the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks; Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks.  The founder's you: the table is the place:   The carvers we: the prologue is the grace.    Each act, a course, each scene, a different dish,     Though we're in Lent, I doubt you're still for flesh.      Satire's the sauce, high-season'd, sharp and rough.       Kind masks and beaux, I hope you're pepperproof?        Wit is the wine; but 'tis so scarce the true         Poets, like vintners, balderdash and brew.          Your surly scenes, where rant and bloodshed join.           Are butcher's meat, a battle's sirloin:            Your scenes of love, so flowing, soft and chaste,             Are water-gruel without salt or taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a great opportunity for our high school youth to give back to the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40825]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a great opportunity for our high school youth to give back to the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pastoral charge [does not] consist merely in administering the sacraments, chanting the canonical hours, celebrating masses -- though even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pastoral charge [does not] consist merely in administering the sacraments, chanting the canonical hours, celebrating masses -- though even these are not properly done by hirelings --; it consists also in feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, covering the naked, receiving guests, visiting the sick and those in prison. By the doing of these things is the people to be instructed in the holy duties of an active life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6760</guid></item></channel></rss>