<?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 most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43944]]></link><description><![CDATA[raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat. 'We’re all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26181]]></link><description><![CDATA['But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat. 'We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.''How do you know I’m mad?' said Alice.'You must be, said the Cat. 'or you wouldn’t have come here.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the early 70s a lot of these (sites) were closed by the state and capped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39678]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the early 70s a lot of these (sites) were closed by the state and capped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She racked her brain for words scathing enough to convey her opinion of their actions. When nothing came to her, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/345]]></link><description><![CDATA[She racked her brain for words scathing enough to convey her opinion of their actions. When nothing came to her, she settled for the one unanswerable accusation. "Men!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57969]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I strive to mould circumstances to myself, not myself to circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50263]]></link><description><![CDATA[I strive to mould circumstances to myself, not myself to circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49545]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39549]]></link><description><![CDATA[For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65673]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools give you reasons, wise men never try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was fabulous, but it was a close one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36005]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was fabulous, but it was a close one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if we weren't what we thought all along? What if we were likeable, lovable even, funny and talented and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66919]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if we weren't what we thought all along? What if we were likeable, lovable even, funny and talented and easy to be around, easy to like? Then our self concept was a lie, told to us by cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  If you ask me how I believe in God, how God creates Himself in me, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  If you ask me how I believe in God, how God creates Himself in me, and reveals Himself to me, my answer may perhaps provoke your smiles or laughter, and even scandalize you. I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand drawing me, leading me, grasping me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27283]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to develop the female phenotype; the mammalian male ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56841]]></link><description><![CDATA[...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to develop the female phenotype; the mammalian male is essentially a female that has been exposed to androgenic steroid hormones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20360]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love!  Hearts that the world in vain had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love!  Hearts that the world in vain had tried,   And sorrow but more closely tied;    That stood the storm when waves were rough,     Yet in a sunny hour fall off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29010]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is like a wolf: it only destroys those who fear it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is like a wolf: it only destroys those who fear it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14230]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never think of leaving perfumes or wine to your heir. Administer these yourself, and let him have your money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never think of leaving perfumes or wine to your heir. Administer these yourself, and let him have your money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All hospitals could achieve it, with a blueprint of how to go about it and the will to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40751]]></link><description><![CDATA[All hospitals could achieve it, with a blueprint of how to go about it and the will to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked about defending better and we came out and did it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35028]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked about defending better and we came out and did it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4053]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Threatened folk live long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Threatened folk live long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The march of the human mind is slow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The march of the human mind is slow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4371]]></link><description><![CDATA[So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very much a summer market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30649]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very much a summer market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44339]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to stop at 3 feet and let it set a little, see how it looks along the seams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30188]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to stop at 3 feet and let it set a little, see how it looks along the seams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9811]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clear conscience is a soft pillow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, Madam, do you know there are upward of thirty yards of bowels squeezed underneath that girdle of your daughter's? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, Madam, do you know there are upward of thirty yards of bowels squeezed underneath that girdle of your daughter's? Go home and cut it; let Nature have fair play, and you will have no need of my advice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65948]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65948</guid></item></channel></rss>