<?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[Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla ojinegra.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." [Sp., Dijo la sarten a la caldera, quitate alla ojinegra.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dog and the ShadowA DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dog and the ShadowA DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To lead the people, walk behind them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24468]]></link><description><![CDATA[To lead the people, walk behind them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22569]]></link><description><![CDATA[No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[- "I've been thinking Hobbes --"- "On a weekend?"- "Well, it wasn't on purpose..." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61502]]></link><description><![CDATA[- "I've been thinking Hobbes --"- "On a weekend?"- "Well, it wasn't on purpose..."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. •E. Joseph Cossman  Each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. •E. Joseph Cossman  Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They either hit it hard, or they didn't hit it hard and it still found a hole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39981]]></link><description><![CDATA[They either hit it hard, or they didn't hit it hard and it still found a hole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I vacationed up in the area as a child and we both figured it had the peace and quiet we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I vacationed up in the area as a child and we both figured it had the peace and quiet we were looking for, ... This is the most fabulous place in the world and George and I loved living here. That's why I'm staying put.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our reaction will be painful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our reaction will be painful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action conquers fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action conquers fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a ragout, first catch your hare. [Fr., Poure faire un civet, prenez un lievre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10130]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a ragout, first catch your hare. [Fr., Poure faire un civet, prenez un lievre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind:  There all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind:  There all in sweet confusion sought the shade,   And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What king so strong, Can tie the gall up in a slanderer's tongue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51396]]></link><description><![CDATA[What king so strong, Can tie the gall up in a slanderer's tongue?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3534]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hallelujah! Hallelujah! On the third morning He arose,  Bright with victory o'er his foes.   Sing we lauding, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hallelujah! Hallelujah! On the third morning He arose,  Bright with victory o'er his foes.   Sing we lauding,    And applauding,     Hallelujah!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood. [Ger., Zwar der Tapfere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood. [Ger., Zwar der Tapfere nennt sich Herr der Lander  Durch sein Eisen, durch sein Blut.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're better than Belgium ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41157]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're better than Belgium]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60224]]></link><description><![CDATA[My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45542]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all appliances and means to boot. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55929]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all appliances and means to boot. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17295]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no great genius without some touch of madness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14377]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fresh feres will dry the bright blue eye We late saw streaming o'er. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fresh feres will dry the bright blue eye We late saw streaming o'er.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say to pleasure, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say to pleasure, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34331]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As our country bled . . . its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32130]]></link><description><![CDATA[As our country bled . . . its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parenthood is one long exercise in relinquishing control -- or the illusion that we ever had it. Postparenthood is about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parenthood is one long exercise in relinquishing control -- or the illusion that we ever had it. Postparenthood is about acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40674]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will not be a cause for panic. It will not be a cause for people to stop hunting. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28821]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will not be a cause for panic. It will not be a cause for people to stop hunting. It will not be a cause for people to stop eating poultry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.  Think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4855]]></link><description><![CDATA[O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.  Think each one of this children and his wife,   His home, his parents, living yet and dead.    For them, the absent ones, I supplicate,     And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never eat anything white.. white flour, white milk,white cream, eggwhites, white sugar, white potatoes etc. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18955]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never eat anything white.. white flour, white milk,white cream, eggwhites, white sugar, white potatoes etc.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11064]]></link><description><![CDATA[We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes in our confusion, we see not the world as it is, but the world though eyes blurred by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes in our confusion, we see not the world as it is, but the world though eyes blurred by the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203   The term "baptism in (or of) the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203   The term "baptism in (or of) the Spirit" conjures up the idea of a separate initiatory experience which every Christian ought to enjoy, whereas evangelicalism is noted for its stress upon a "conversion" experience which marks the beginning of the believer's relationship to his Lord. Too often, alas, conversion has been the end as well as the beginning, with the result that some Christians have looked back, with mingled delight and wistfulness to a past event that now seems to have diminished relevance to daily living. We can fully understand, then, the appeal of a movement which promises a new dimension of Christian living, there in the New Testament, and now available in everyday experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of "conviction" is complex. It involves the conceptions of authoritative examination, of unquestionable proof, of decisive judgment, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of "conviction" is complex. It involves the conceptions of authoritative examination, of unquestionable proof, of decisive judgment, of punitive power. Whatever the final issue may be, he who "convicts" another must place the truth of the case in a clear light before him, so that it must be seen and acknowledged as truth. He who then rejects the conclusion which the exposition involves, rejects it with his eyes open and at his peril. Truth seen as truth carries with it condemnation to all who refuse to welcome it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the mantle of national interest is the last refuge of the economically dispossessed. In economic terms, pleading national interest is the declining cottage industry of those who have been bypassed by the global economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5008</guid></item></channel></rss>