<?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[Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is the indispensable investment required for success in the 'information age' we are entering ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is the indispensable investment required for success in the 'information age' we are entering]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47191]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to the flag, a leader, a religious faith or political conviction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31769]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. - Essays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56498]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa E ducation is bitter but the fruit is sweet. -Lord Chesterfield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that fee does not pass, we have no choice but to make drastic cuts, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31960]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that fee does not pass, we have no choice but to make drastic cuts,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All cruelty springs from weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52112]]></link><description><![CDATA[All cruelty springs from weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Huntsman and the FishermanA huntsman, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Huntsman and the FishermanA huntsman, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman who was bringing home a basket well laden with fish. The Huntsman wished to have the fish, and their owner experienced an equal longing for the contents of the game-bag. They quickly agreed to exchange the produce of their day's sport. Each was so well pleased with his bargain that they made for some time the same exchange day after day. Finally a neighbor said to them, If you go on in this way, you will soon destroy by frequent use the pleasure of your exchange, and each will again wish to retain the fruits of his own sport. Abstain and enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,  And truth disclaiming both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,  And truth disclaiming both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's disconcerting, ... These are supposed to be the crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me de la crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me of forces. If their procurement officers were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39736]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's disconcerting, ... These are supposed to be the crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me de la crÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨me of forces. If their procurement officers were taking kickbacks, it could be happening anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and they are ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and they are ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour  The bad affright, afflict the best! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour  The bad affright, afflict the best!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world  Is full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world  Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen   Enough of all its sorrows, crimes and cares,    To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood     And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade      Shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze       That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm        To thy sick heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels uncomfortable. It is uneasy. We're not used to this situation in the market. But, after all, this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41883]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels uncomfortable. It is uneasy. We're not used to this situation in the market. But, after all, this is the much-awaited correction that many people have been looking for in recent years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/209]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence... and loathing seizes him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a lot better defensively, and we played a faster-paced game like we're used to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29051]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a lot better defensively, and we played a faster-paced game like we're used to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18797]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world loves a good loser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65237]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world loves a good loser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2544]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57480]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59788]]></link><description><![CDATA[True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music helps not the toothache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music helps not the toothache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bill is completely ignoring the economic, political and social reality of the United States. Immigrants have been and will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bill is completely ignoring the economic, political and social reality of the United States. Immigrants have been and will continue to be an integral part of the country's social fabric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5826]]></link><description><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52797]]></link><description><![CDATA[True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms;  Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms;  Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I commend the team for staying in the game. Once Diablo put up five, it took the wind out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I commend the team for staying in the game. Once Diablo put up five, it took the wind out of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   While many Americans are still firmly committed to the traditional, supernatural conceptions of a personal God, a Divine Savior, and the promise of eternal life, the trend is away from these convictions. The fact is that a demythologized modernism is overwhelming the traditional Christ-centered, mystical faith. For the modern skeptics are not the apostates, village atheists, or political revolutionaries of old. The leaders of today's challenge to traditional beliefs are principally theologians -- those in whose care the church entrusts its sacred teachings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65762]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65762</guid></item></channel></rss>