<?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 house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1045]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And neglected his task for the flowers on the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50670]]></link><description><![CDATA[And neglected his task for the flowers on the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find The perfumes thou dost bring? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find The perfumes thou dost bring?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14068]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could enter,--ask the rhetorician Sabinaeus to bathe himself in it. He would freeze the warm baths of Nero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry. -Thomas Haliburton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2599]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry. -Thomas Haliburton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't pay attention for an hour and 15 minutes. It would make my life better if I could go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29047]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't pay attention for an hour and 15 minutes. It would make my life better if I could go back and reference parts of the lecture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkrs. The power of the car ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkrs. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11377]]></link><description><![CDATA[May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28476]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47240]]></link><description><![CDATA[My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil: my cup ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil: my cup runneth over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These arrests make absolutely clear the presence throughout Europe and in Spain of members or collaborators of radical Islamic terrorist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29318]]></link><description><![CDATA[These arrests make absolutely clear the presence throughout Europe and in Spain of members or collaborators of radical Islamic terrorist organizations, and that is a cause for continuing concern,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My husband and I just thought he needs to be in this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33894]]></link><description><![CDATA[My husband and I just thought he needs to be in this one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43199]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cricket is basically baseball on valium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cricket is basically baseball on valium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was the one that got us started. That was the key to bringing us back. That started the momentum. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39061]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was the one that got us started. That was the key to bringing us back. That started the momentum. If he gets the pin, Elliott (Morse) comes in and goes wild because he wants to get the pin too. Then Ryan (Amaya) has to get a pin. It's a little posse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  To think of the Communists as the executors of God's judgment should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  To think of the Communists as the executors of God's judgment should not strike us as strange if we have read our Bibles. The same study should free us from the assumption that God will always be on our side whatever we do, will always protect His Church from temporal evil; or that He is only concerned with the faithful believers. It was precisely His concern for the wicked Ninevites that so distressed the prophet Jonah.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9710]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20640]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26526]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11336]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is master of himself will soon be master of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50987]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.  Thine is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.  Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews;   The rage but not the talent to abuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CBC is so deep and they can beat you in so many ways. When we were able to kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37299]]></link><description><![CDATA[CBC is so deep and they can beat you in so many ways. When we were able to kind of control their guards, they killed us inside. They just wore us out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a right anybody can use, so please, if there is any problem with a press publication, there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29418]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a right anybody can use, so please, if there is any problem with a press publication, there are also laws to solve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're playing a lot tougher, and we're kind of getting into a little routine. We want to try to attack ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39897]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're playing a lot tougher, and we're kind of getting into a little routine. We want to try to attack the post, we want to be timely with the shooting from the perimeter, and defensively we've picked up things a little bit. But by the same token, our schedule has not weakened a bit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LightWinged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18104]]></link><description><![CDATA[LightWinged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.-Henry David Thoreau-.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. [Lat., Bene qui latuit, bene vixit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44766]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. [Lat., Bene qui latuit, bene vixit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek and you will find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek and you will find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66580]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16270</guid></item></channel></rss>