<?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[Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer  Than Nature made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer  Than Nature made her; her beauty cost her nothing,   Her virtues were so rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:This is me damn it! I look the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20769]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often they operate a snack bar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often they operate a snack bar and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By them there sat the loving pelican, Whose young ones, poison'd by the serpent's sting,  With her own blood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46007]]></link><description><![CDATA[By them there sat the loving pelican, Whose young ones, poison'd by the serpent's sting,  With her own blood to life again doth bring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last infirmity of noble mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last infirmity of noble mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe a casual fan will take his kid to see [Pittsburgh Penguins No. 1 draft pick] Sidney Crosby. Will he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe a casual fan will take his kid to see [Pittsburgh Penguins No. 1 draft pick] Sidney Crosby. Will he go 41 other times? I don't think so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to look too far ahead. We've got a big weekend coming up [against Penn State] before anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to look too far ahead. We've got a big weekend coming up [against Penn State] before anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27721]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one  thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33593]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one  thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a mom and dad and children who have lost everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556   One of the catchwords in contemporary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556   One of the catchwords in contemporary Protestantism is that religion must aid man in "becoming human" or even "truly human" -- whatever that means -- and the "model" is Christ. Take the "obvious things" about Christ as listed by a contemporary minister:  He was a popular and controversial preacher; He gathered a group of followers; He spent most of his time with the disinherited; He taught with authority; He never married; He never (so far as we know) held a job; He did not participate in public affairs; He did not have income, property, or an address; He was in bitter and frequent conflict with the religious and political authorities; He seemed to expect that the world would be eminently, radically, and supernaturally transformed; He attacked the traditions and values of his own people; He practically forced the authorities to prosecute and execute him. There is nothing exclusively religious, much less Christian, in this description, which, with a few exceptions, might apply also to Socrates or to "Che" Guevara. I asked many socially oriented ministers why they were Christians at all. Some said through faith, and some said that Christianity gave them courage and the motivation to endure (but so do other beliefs). Some said they hardly knew and that, if another, more acceptable, ideology came along, they would embrace it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11362]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The birds have ceased their songs, All save the blackbird, that from yon tall ash,  'Mid Pinkie's greenery, from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The birds have ceased their songs, All save the blackbird, that from yon tall ash,  'Mid Pinkie's greenery, from his mellow throat,   In adoration of the setting sun,    Chants forth his evening hymn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12600]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am delighted to see him back again. He's a creative player who will help the club move forward over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30676]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am delighted to see him back again. He's a creative player who will help the club move forward over the next few years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63357]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion is no substitute for justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion is no substitute for justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has no enemy, you say; My friend your boast is poor,  He who hath mingled in the fray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13838]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has no enemy, you say; My friend your boast is poor,  He who hath mingled in the fray   Of duty that the brave endure    Must have made foes. If he has none     Small is the work that he has done.      He has hit no traitor on the hip;       Has cast no cup from perjured lip;        Has never turned the wrong to right;         Has been a coward in the fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So I am incredibly worried tonight about him and his safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40065]]></link><description><![CDATA[So I am incredibly worried tonight about him and his safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a unique moment for Afghanistan. The whole situation has changed inside Afghanistan, in the region and in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28281]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a unique moment for Afghanistan. The whole situation has changed inside Afghanistan, in the region and in the international community,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to give men and women in the department equal opportunities to appear on stage. With 'Julius Caesar' and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35480]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to give men and women in the department equal opportunities to appear on stage. With 'Julius Caesar' and 'The Rainmaker,' those are great opportunities for men, and we selected the others for the female actors on campus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee?  Her pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee?  Her pleasure is in darts and battles; thine   In joyous feasts and draughts of rosy wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of that which is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of that which is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just wanted to get the win for the four seniors ... We wanted them to go out with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38920]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just wanted to get the win for the four seniors ... We wanted them to go out with a big bang and for us to have momentum going into the Big Ten tournament. But I think our team is still there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a safety reminder, all motorists must constantly be aware of smaller vehicles, including motorcycles, on our roadways, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31871]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a safety reminder, all motorists must constantly be aware of smaller vehicles, including motorcycles, on our roadways,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler... I'm Doctor Spin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1069]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied. Those who do good as opportunity offers are sowing seed all the time, and they need not doubt the harvest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17406]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63100]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44640]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're budgeted for this year. We did the budgeting for this year in the spring, so our year is set. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38238]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're budgeted for this year. We did the budgeting for this year in the spring, so our year is set. However, if the price remains high or goes higher, then we may have to drop a home-and-home series with someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22730]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5539]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A breeze came wandering from the sky, Light as the whispers of a dream;  He put the o'erhanging grasses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61637]]></link><description><![CDATA[A breeze came wandering from the sky, Light as the whispers of a dream;  He put the o'erhanging grasses by,   And softly stooped to kiss the stream,    The pretty stream, the flattered stream,     The shy, yet unreluctant stream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49258]]></link><description><![CDATA[From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56871]]></link><description><![CDATA[To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47418</guid></item></channel></rss>