<?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[Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was raining so hard, and I couldn't see that much of the game, and it was cold and wet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40445]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was raining so hard, and I couldn't see that much of the game, and it was cold and wet, and I didn't bring a coat, so I left early.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. - "A Word to the Wizards".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5994]]></link><description><![CDATA[things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little gale will soon disperse that cloud And blow it to the source from whence it came.  Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57908]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little gale will soon disperse that cloud And blow it to the source from whence it came.  Thy very beams will dry those vapors up,   For every cloud engenders not a storm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2657]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/544]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59398]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66722]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don\'t back down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47109]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46836]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the old armchair quarterback theory, that a fan can be a better coach, better owner than the guy in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36062]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the old armchair quarterback theory, that a fan can be a better coach, better owner than the guy in the owner's box. This gives you an opportunity to prove you know football better than the pros.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the story broke, there was stupid conduct. But that doesn't make what happened before a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40648]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the story broke, there was stupid conduct. But that doesn't make what happened before a crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The critical thing is that no two situations are alike. Depending on where you are in Africa, the Middle East or Asia, laws and medical care are very different. We strive to make sure that travelers have the same information we as diplomats have. Americans and Western interests are targets, and Americans should be aware of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth:  The prince my brother hath outgrown me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18402]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth:  The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26458]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9958]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy face in it, brake it in pieces; but for that one he saw many more as bad in a moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love that of children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love that of children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am bound to take care of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1459]]></link><description><![CDATA[To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know for sure we'll have it - snow, rain and probably everything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31219]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know for sure we'll have it - snow, rain and probably everything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent partie is still faultie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent partie is still faultie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3024]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it happens that we can no longer build such piles? I replied: "Dear Alphonse, men in those days had convictions (Ueberzeugungen), we moderns have opinions (Meinungen) and it requires something more than an opinion to build a Gothic cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be great is to be misunderstood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14430]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be great is to be misunderstood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3991]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mark of modern unbelieving man as a whole is that he has felt astonishingly much at home in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8157]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mark of modern unbelieving man as a whole is that he has felt astonishingly much at home in his earthly surroundings. He has taken a cheerful view of the prospects of the race and of the future of human history, staying his soul upon the promise of further "evolution" of the human individual, the continuous upward progress of civilization, or perhaps the confident expectation of a completely revolutionized order of society -- a communist Utopia beyond the class struggle or something else of that same general kind. Where such hopes remain unchastened by the cold touch of reality, there is little prospect of the Christian Gospel recommending itself to men's minds, and any wordy defense of it is likely to be quite useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got me girlfriend Hazel Jean, and I just like where I come from. But don't get me wrong, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36358]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got me girlfriend Hazel Jean, and I just like where I come from. But don't get me wrong, I love all the country, but I still love where I come from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls betweenourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22090]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls betweenourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the distinctionsbetween flesh and spirit, to transcend the present limits of time andmatter, to find, at last, not wealth or power but the ecstasy (so longforgotten) of commonplace, unconditional being. For the atom's soul isnothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life ofevery woman or man-the heart of it-is pure and holy joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15640]]></link><description><![CDATA[FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/86]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/86</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chad brings the bulk of the ideas to the table, and we all polish and rework the ideas he comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chad brings the bulk of the ideas to the table, and we all polish and rework the ideas he comes up with. He's such an accomplished songwriter. He wrote a song for ('American Idol' runner-up) Bo Bice, Enrique Iglesias - he's got that ear to be a musical chameleon and get into the zone of an artist. And he can't help but write a song you can hum along to. And that voice, you know it when you hear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of coaches -- those who have been fired, and those who will be fired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57499]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of coaches -- those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must do the thing you think you cannot do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12727]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must do the thing you think you cannot do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great that he's with us for the semi-final after missing the last two matches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41647]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great that he's with us for the semi-final after missing the last two matches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They try to put all the information on the Web site. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40459]]></link><description><![CDATA[They try to put all the information on the Web site.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40459</guid></item></channel></rss>