<?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 flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1704]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were hoping to get a better handle on it. We knew the plume was fairly widespread. I think the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40496]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were hoping to get a better handle on it. We knew the plume was fairly widespread. I think the testing changed our perspective from looking for one source to looking for multiple sources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the source of their artistry frays, cracks and disappears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46695]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality. [Lat., Ludendi etiam est quidam modus retinendus, ut ne nimis omnia profundamus, elatique voluptate in aliquam turpitudinem delabamur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He kept no Christmas-house for once a yeere, Each day his boards were fild with Lordly fare;  He fed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19858]]></link><description><![CDATA[He kept no Christmas-house for once a yeere, Each day his boards were fild with Lordly fare;  He fed a rout of yeoman with his cheer,   Nor was his bread and beefe kept in with care;    His wine and beere to strangers were not spare,     And yet beside to all that hunger greved,      His gates were open, and they were there relived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our strength was that overall, we had a bunch of kids do well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our strength was that overall, we had a bunch of kids do well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60279]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable;  A vile conceit in pompous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable;  A vile conceit in pompous words express'd,   Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9473]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. - Inaugural Address.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it's your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are oft to blame in this, 'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage  And pious action we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20233]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are oft to blame in this, 'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage  And pious action we do sugar o'er   The devil himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61225]]></link><description><![CDATA[War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, O thou tyrant, Do not repent these things, for they are heavier  Than all thy woes can stir. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12018]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, O thou tyrant, Do not repent these things, for they are heavier  Than all thy woes can stir. Therefore betake thee   To nothing but despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost everyone who has read history in a more than casual manner knows that when the great figure of God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost everyone who has read history in a more than casual manner knows that when the great figure of God appears in a controversy, the shooting cannot be far off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce,  Has lived so long, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46576]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce,  Has lived so long, and yet no knowledge he   Has had, till lately, of Phrenology--    A science that by simple dint of     Head-combing he should find a hint of,      When scratching o'er those little pole-hills       The faculties throw up like mole hills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we thought it would improve our relationship, we would get married tomorrow, but as it is, nearly 7 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30062]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we thought it would improve our relationship, we would get married tomorrow, but as it is, nearly 7 years after we got engaged, we are content to wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43307]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50866]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason. [Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53095]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason. [Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance wavers between extreme audacity and extreme shyness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance wavers between extreme audacity and extreme shyness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14885]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47638]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25292]]></link><description><![CDATA[A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56093]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54132]]></link><description><![CDATA[A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Diego customers will pay 10 percent of the cost of this project, and yet 100 percent of the benefits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37895]]></link><description><![CDATA[San Diego customers will pay 10 percent of the cost of this project, and yet 100 percent of the benefits of this project will stay in San Diego.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107   Grace is the incomprehensible fact that God is well pleased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107   Grace is the incomprehensible fact that God is well pleased with a man, and that a man can rejoice in God. Only when grace is recognized to be incomprehensible is it grace. Grace exists, therefore, only where the Resurrection is reflected. Grace is the gift of Christ, who exposes the gulf which separates God and man, and, by exposing it, bridges it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24219]]></link><description><![CDATA[One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark! that's the nightingale, Telling the self-same tale  Her song told when this ancient earth was young:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark! that's the nightingale, Telling the self-same tale  Her song told when this ancient earth was young:   So echoes answered when her song was sung    In the first wooded vale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43725]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We told the guys coming in that their pressure was going to be the key and fourth quarter their pressure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38718]]></link><description><![CDATA[We told the guys coming in that their pressure was going to be the key and fourth quarter their pressure got to our guards and we didn't get the ball inside like we did the first three quarters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33011]]></link><description><![CDATA[We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many kids. When school?s out, it all goes away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33386]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many kids. When school?s out, it all goes away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23104]]></link><description><![CDATA[For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love those who yearn for the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65921]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love those who yearn for the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55187]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55187</guid></item></channel></rss>