<?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[Sorrow is the great idealizer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow is the great idealizer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10791]]></link><description><![CDATA[He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64520]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63684]]></link><description><![CDATA[A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is commonly and truly also said: "Matters be ended as they be friended." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13791]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is commonly and truly also said: "Matters be ended as they be friended."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4595]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market was quiet due to the uncertain economic situation. It was not supported by the recent strengthening in oil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market was quiet due to the uncertain economic situation. It was not supported by the recent strengthening in oil prices or the strengthening in other world stock markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and of little accidents; not allowing to itself any infirmity which it strives not to master, aiming at what it cannot yet reach, desiring to be of an angelic purity, and of a perfect innocence, and a seraphical fervor, and fears every image of offense; is as much afflicted at an idle word as some at an act of adultery, and will not allow to itself so much anger as will disturb a child, nor endure the impurity of a dream. And this is the curiosity and niceness of divine love: this is the fear of God, and is the daughter and production of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the winners decide what were war crimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the winners decide what were war crimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8811]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61948]]></link><description><![CDATA[To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would make it awfully difficult to do sewer projects in the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32160]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would make it awfully difficult to do sewer projects in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This special event at Vibrato brought together many people sharing a common bond - a love of jazz and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36478]]></link><description><![CDATA[This special event at Vibrato brought together many people sharing a common bond - a love of jazz and a desire to support its future, ... It gave them the opportunity to indulge in both passions - to celebrate the great artistry of Dave Brubeck, and to support the Brubeck Institute, a program at the University of the Pacific which, through its Fellowship Program and Summer Jazz Colony, serves to train and nurture the next generation of great jazz artists and innovators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Light that Failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25058]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Light that Failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bird of the broad and sweeping wing, Thy home is high in heaven,  Where wide the storms their banners ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bird of the broad and sweeping wing, Thy home is high in heaven,  Where wide the storms their banners fling,   And the tempest clouds are driven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Favour will as surely perish as life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Favour will as surely perish as life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63247]]></link><description><![CDATA[First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still;  The Christmas bells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still;  The Christmas bells from hill to hill   Answer each other in the mist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2046]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing Dan did was put in his time at the shop. There's no other way to do it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing Dan did was put in his time at the shop. There's no other way to do it. It's how you learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59797]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just feel like it's helping children in the community and families, ... I enjoy doing the work. I like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just feel like it's helping children in the community and families, ... I enjoy doing the work. I like to kind of still use my brain instead of just running around with the kids.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. [Lat., Utque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12493]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. [Lat., Utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est morbus qui a capite diffunditur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty much putting yourself inside a prison .ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â .ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â . and that's not for business people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29721]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty much putting yourself inside a prison .ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â .ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â . and that's not for business people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspending the operations of the PLO office is another message from Congress to the Palestinian people that it adopts the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspending the operations of the PLO office is another message from Congress to the Palestinian people that it adopts the position of the far right in Israel and this does not serve U.S. interests in the region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been cheering these dudes on for about 80 games now. Time for them to sit down and relax and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28780]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been cheering these dudes on for about 80 games now. Time for them to sit down and relax and watch us play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21308]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear one another's burdens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bear one another's burdens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prodded her to do it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prodded her to do it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a different matter with sheep. Once their wool is waterlogged, they drown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39662]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a different matter with sheep. Once their wool is waterlogged, they drown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very comfortable taking a second role to him. There is no doubt about his ability to step up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39636]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very comfortable taking a second role to him. There is no doubt about his ability to step up in big games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sonny was a no-frills kind of guy. He shot straight from the shoulder. You knew exactly where you stood with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sonny was a no-frills kind of guy. He shot straight from the shoulder. You knew exactly where you stood with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is related to all nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26238]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is related to all nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you're on the right track--you'll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you're on the right track--you'll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60152]]></link><description><![CDATA[What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumus  Si flenda ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58206]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumus  Si flenda patimur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59081]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55320]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52228]]></link><description><![CDATA[A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47775]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47775</guid></item></channel></rss>